On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 21:24:33 -0800 (PST), David E. Fox wrote:
>>it would seem to me that if a man page was present in both places,
>>I would =
>>see the one in /opt/perl... first. But lo, and behold:
>
>Matt - I think the issue here is that the first man entry is for
>section 1 in the manual and the second is for a function in section 3
>that's perl-specific. One would think that section 1 (i.e., user
>commands) are displayed before section 3 items. Of course you can
>override, i.e., 'man 3 version' should bring up the second entry.

Ah! Ok. I get it now. That would explain why SOME of the section 3 items work and some 
don't. Duh! I should know better. (V8 slap to the head).

Thanks
--
Matthew O. Persico



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