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RE: where can I download man2 pages


On 02 May 2006 15:59, Charles D. Russell wrote:

> According to Charles D. Russell on 5/2/2006 6:55 AM:
>>  Is there somewhere I can download the *.2 manpages for functions
>>  available in cygwin?
> 
> Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> Not all the functions have man pages in cygwin - volunteers are welcome to
> help write some.  Having said that, the web is your friend - most of the
> cygwin syscalls are modeled after Linux, so looking at Linux man pages is
> usually a good start (although not always accurate on cygwin); also POSIX
> and SUSv3 are freely available standards on the web, with pretty good
> descriptions of what a portable implementation will do.

> Best I've found so far is
> http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/doc/man/hpux.section_top.html


  The Opengroup posix spec is really the canonical one, hp's man pages are
liable to have hp-ux specific parts.  Download it from

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/download/





    cheers,
      DaveK
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