Carl Lowenstein wrote:
Some people who write man pages haven't read the documentation on how
to write a man page (man 7 man) and manage to screw up the data that
goes into making the "apropos" data base. Especially Larry Wall, with
his perl pod. Its really quite a mess, with accretions over two or
three decades.
Um, is there a reason why nobody has mentioned the "-k" option to man?
It has the advantage that it tells you what section the page is in.
Example at end of mail.
As an aside, I *detest* programs like Perl and Tcl that crap manpages
for every stinking Perl or Tcl module into my system directories.
-a
andrew-lentvorskis-computer:~ andrewl$ man -k ntp
Net::NNTP(3pm) - NNTP Client class
Tcl_MacSetEventProc(3tcl), Tcl_MacConvertTextResource(3tcl),
Tcl_MacEvalResource(3tcl), Tcl_MacFindResource(3tcl),
Tcl_GetOSTypeFromObj(3tcl), Tcl_SetOSTypeObj(3tcl),
Tcl_NewOSTypeObj(3tcl) - procedures to handle Macintosh resources and
other Macintosh specifics
grantpt(3), ptsname(3), unlockpt(3), posix_openpt(3) - pseudo-terminal
access functions
nntp(n) - Tcl client for the NNTP protocol
ntp-genkeys(8) - generate public and private keys
ntp_time(n) - Tcl Time Service Client
ntpd(8) - Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon
ntpdate(8) - set the date and time via NTP
ntpdc(8) - special NTP query program
ntpq(8) - standard NTP query program
ntptime(8) - read kernel time variables
ntptrace(8) - trace a chain of NTP servers back to the
primary source
XChangeDeviceDontPropagateList(3), XGetDeviceDontPropagateList(3) -
query or change the dont-propagate-list for extension devices
XLoadFont(3), XQueryFont(3), XLoadQueryFont(3), XFreeFont(3),
XGetFontProperty(3), XUnloadFont(3), XCharStruct(3), XFontProp(3),
XChar2b(3), XFontStruct(3) - load or unload fonts and font metric structures
XSetFontPath(3), XGetFontPath(3), XFreeFontPath(3) - set, get, or free
the font search path
XtLastEventProcessed(3), XtLastTimestampProcessed(3) - last event, last
timestamp processed
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