On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 23:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > My problem is that I don't recall ever having seen a document > that defines what the various manpage 'chapters' as you call > them, are supposed to represent. Here's an overview of the traditional UNIX System Manual: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_manual Here is a breakdown of the LDP system manual from the man-pages documentation: Section 0p = POSIX headers Section 1p = POSIX utilities Section 3p = POSIX functions Section 1 = user commands (intro, and pages not maintained by FSF) Section 2 = system calls Section 3 = libc calls Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd) Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs) Section 6 = games (intro only) Section 7 = conventions, macro packages, etc. Section 8 = system administration (intro only) Usually, there are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these should be distributed with the binaries they are written for. Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of the kernel. Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains several hundred man pages. -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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