From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>
To: Clayton Weaver <cgweav@eskimo.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980915130941.201A-100000@lo-pc3035a> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980915000113.28774A-100000@eskimo.com>
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Clayton Weaver wrote:
> If I am looking at the man page for some function, and this isn't quite
> the one I wanted, how do I find the one I do want if I have some keyword
> that I know is mentioned on the one that I want but I don't what the
> actual function name is?
man apropos
QED
Cheers,
Alex.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-15 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-14 14:04 Alex Buell
1998-09-14 21:49 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-15 14:14 ` Dave Love
1998-09-15 14:14 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-16 11:34 ` Dave Love
1998-09-16 21:52 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-17 9:59 ` Dave Love
1998-09-15 1:12 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-09-15 8:17 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-16 3:07 ` Kamil Iskra
1998-09-16 3:07 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-16 11:34 ` Per Bothner
1998-09-16 21:52 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-19 12:03 ` Dave Love
1998-09-21 9:44 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-17 9:59 ` Andreas Schwab
1998-09-17 9:59 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-19 12:03 ` Dave Love
1998-09-19 18:47 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-25 10:17 ` Nicholas J. Leon
1998-09-25 19:05 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-25 22:53 ` Scott A Crosby
1998-09-15 18:39 ` Dave Love
1998-09-15 19:05 ` Carlo Wood
1998-09-15 19:05 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-09-16 3:04 ` Per Bothner
1998-09-16 22:59 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-16 22:59 ` Per Bothner
1998-09-16 22:55 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-17 11:14 ` Dave Love
1998-09-16 21:52 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-19 12:03 ` Dave Love
[not found] ` <rzqg1dodknl.fsf.cygnus.egcs@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>
1998-09-21 14:55 ` Jason Merrill
1998-09-22 14:12 ` Dave Love
1998-09-15 7:06 ` Clayton Weaver
1998-09-15 11:28 ` Alex Buell [this message]
1998-09-15 13:47 ` Tim Waugh
1998-09-15 14:14 ` Joern Rennecke
1998-09-16 1:48 ` Andreas Schwab
1998-09-17 10:03 David Ross
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