On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:51 PM, keshava singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi friends
>               my students used to make C programs using TURBO C++ in windows
> environment. I want to motivate them to do it in LINUX environment. But the
> problem is that
> they find TC convenient because they can easily get help about any library
> function by just typing some part of the function's name and right clicking
> that. Even they can find examples about the functions.
>                           Is it possible to find such kind of help in LINUX
> environment specially in UBUNTU 10.04?
>
> --
> thanks and regards
>
> KESHAVA PRATAP SINGH
>
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man pages!
To search for library functions: man -k funcpart

Mostly library functions are documented in section 3 of the manual.
So, man 3 printf will show you the man page for printf()
You can use the pdf trick mentioned by narendra in l...@iitd blog if
you would like to see it graphically.

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