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Old 12-06-2004, 08:55 AM   #1
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man page for system functions


Hi,
does anyone know which package I should install to get the man page of system functions (like writev for example) ?

Thanks a lot

Boul
 
Old 12-06-2004, 09:05 AM   #2
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"does anyone know which package I should install to get the man page of system functions (like writev for example) ?"

This may be distribution dependent. On SuSE 9.1 the package is called man-pages-1.66-38.

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Old 12-06-2004, 10:13 AM   #3
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Hi,
thanks a lot, indeed I did an urpmi on man-pages (I'm on Mandrake 10.1) and I got what I needed.

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