yeah, as keshava told u can use $man "thingu want the manual of"
examples: in terminal $man printf $man pow $man scanf $man rand $man puts $man gets etc................. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > > > > 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. > > -- > Regards, > Nilesh Govindarajan > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr > Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr > Website: http://www.itech7.com > VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- Kumar Anurag -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
