[geeks] Common Unix knowledge

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Michael Schiller <schiller at agrijag.com> wrote:

> > : In /usr/share/man there are 9 cat directories, which contain man 
> > pages. What
> > : exactly are these, and why are these man pages not in the man 
> > folders?
> 
> Am I just too familiar with Unix, thinking that this is common 
> knowledge?

Yes - they relate to teh sectionsof the original Unix manuals, and most
folks have never seen the manuals printed out these days...


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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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