[geeks] Common Unix knowledge

[Ido Dubrawsky]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:44:19AM -0600, geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
> --- 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...
>
More specifically they are the preformatted man pages.  If this guy doesn't
know what they are (or figure it out for himself...perhaps he isn't the
best choice for an author on UNIX).  And yes, this is common knowledge.

Ido
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