get man help for functions

ilnli · 08-01-2007, 02:37 PM

Hi,

Can anyone please tell me how can I get "man page" help for C functions and libraries like when I do

man getch

It takes me to that manual page but when I do

man ifconf
or
man ifreq

which are structures for networking programming then it says

No manual entry for ifconf

can you guys tell me that how can I install all these manual pages on my debian system?

Please help

regards,
Imran

izecksohn · 08-01-2007, 09:12 PM

Not every struct or function has a man page or was documented.

Try:

find /usr/include/ -print0 | xargs -0 grep ifconf

and

find /usr/include/ -print0 | xargs -0 grep ifreq

ilnli · 08-02-2007, 09:45 AM

right, but can you kindly tell me the apt-get command by which I can install all the docs that related to C on my system?

brownflamigo1 · 08-02-2007, 09:56 AM

Code:

apt-get install gcc/g++<press TAB couple of times and see for yourself what you need>

Note, dont do it under root, since it will not display anything.