On 12/23/2014 10:10 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: > >> On 12/23/2014 08:29 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> FWIW, "man man" does tell one the purpose of each of the sections. >> 1 Executable programs or shell commands >> 2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel) >> 3 Library calls (functions within program libraries) >> 4 Special files (usually found in /dev) >> 5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd >> 6 Games >> 7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and >> conventions), e.g. >> man(7), groff(7) >> 8 System administration commands (usually only for root) >> 9 Kernel routines [Non standard] >> >> see again I get confused... >> >> man 7 groff >> No manual entry for groff in section 7 > > > As someone else noted, it's most likely that either you don't have all > the man pages installed, or you don't have all the programs > installed. For me, for instance, "man 7 groff" brings up a man page > for me in both CentOS 6.6 and Fedora 21. > > billo > > I think it was the OP that was missing man 7/8 commands. I was using groff as an example, and, no I don't have groff installed... nroff/troff, wow haven't used those in MANY years, as in BI ( before Internet:-0) -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
