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46 Documentation?

Nothing showed up, so I started looking in /usr/man. This is despite

the fact that I know that things can be elsewhere, and that my MAN-

PATH already contained /usr/man (and every other directory in

which I had found useful man pages on any system).

I expected to see something like:

michael: cd /usr/man

michael: ls

man1 man2 man3 man4 man5 man6 man7

man8 manl

What I got was:

michael: cd /usr/man

michael: ls

local

p_man

u_man

(%*&@#+! SysV-ism) Now, other than the SysV vs. BSD ls-format-

ting difference, I thought this was rather weird. But, I kept on, look-

ing for anything that looked like cat3 or man3:

michael: cd local

michael: ls

kermit.1c

michael: cd ../p_man

michael: ls

man3

michael: cd ../u_man

man1

man4

michael: cd ../p_man/man3

michael: ls

Xm

Now, there’s something wrong with finding only an X subdirectory

in man3. What next? The brute-force method:

michael: cd /

michael: find / -name lockf.3 -print

michael: