Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | * Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > On Solaris and other systems I could execute a command such as 'man getc' | > for example to look up info on the C getc() function. On Debian I haven't | > been able to do this without getting the 'no manual entry' message. Which | > package might I install to get the same (or similar) functionality as | > Solaris? | | info getc works fine for me. | | When you are coding in (X)Emacs, another nice thing is word-help.el | or func-doc.el.
% locate getc.3 /usr/man/man3/fgetc.3.gz /usr/man/man3/getc.3.gz /usr/man/man3/ungetc.3.gz % dpkg -S getc.3.gz manpages-dev: /usr/man/man3/getc.3.gz manpages-dev: /usr/man/man3/fgetc.3.gz manpages-dev: /usr/man/man3/ungetc.3.gz Looks like the manpages-dev is the package he wants. Gary
