What equivalent of MSDN (in MS Windows ) is in Linux???

man and info are my main sources of info. There was a pretty decent MSDN-like GUI front end for them that I played with awhile ago, but I don't remember the name of it offhand. I tend to do most of my Linux programming remotely w/o a GUI lately so I haven't had the chance to use it much.

BTW, Anyone know if there are man or info pages for the STL classes? I don't think I've seen them anywhere. I usually go to Google or MSDN when I need info on a particular STL class, but it'd be nice to know how to access that info from man or info if it is available there anywhere...

First post, check
http://www.mono-project.com
There is a very familar MSDN feel to their library. But, it's more for mono (.Net).

You can also download the LSB which is somewhere well over 600 pages last look:
http://www.linuxbase.org/

Second post.
http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/
There is no downloadable version because it's covered by copyright. There are some other websites that have been trying to document everything. Easy to find, but not always complete.

Thanks, I was mainly just curious if the STL documentation was available in man or info pages the way the std C library is. I never have trouble finding what info I need with a quick google search or looking at MSDN. I just thought it might be useful to be able to do, for instance, a "man stringstream" to get the info w/o opening a browser. I guess not, though, so that answers my question.

MSDN is Microsoft spesific
Man and info pages are not full

Things like automated index and search????

Google and Internet are cool sources of info

But to find the right info with them is like to drink water from fire hose.

man
info
linuxquestions.org
www.google.com/linux

If you are looking just for info on the standard C/C++ libraries, the info in MSDN applies as well, so not all of the MSDN documentation is MS specific. (It can even be used for various libraries that are very similar between Windows and Linux, such as the basic OpenGL functions and many of the socket functions.)

I've found man and info pages to be pretty complete for the standard C library, and most other standard UNIX libraries I've used.

Third party libraries typically have their own documentation, which may or may not be very good...

Since the widely-used C library of most linux distribution is glibc, I find it helpful to read the glibc documentation and it is also available for download.

www.die.net
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