[plug] Tracking system problems...

John Summerfield summer at os2.ami.com.au
Fri Sep 3 07:10:08 WST 1999


> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> > What is the significance of the numbers in the brackets?
> 
> It's the section of the manual the command is documented in.
> It's not as important now, because the "man" command searches all

The section number remains important; chown(1) differs from chown(2) in 
some important aspects.

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John Summerfield
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