On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > My bad. Thanks. Sorry. How silly of me to expect a rand(1) page to be for a > rand command.
This is something of a quirk of the openssl doc, useful because you can in fact set up the openssl subcommands as standalone UNIX shell commands - e.g. "ln /usr/bin/openssl /usr/bin/rand" will create a "rand" exectuable that behaves just like "openssl rand". There's probably a 'make install' option in the openssl distro that does this for all or some subset of the subcommands. Anyway, this sort of man page quirk is not limited to openssl; it's always a good idea to check the SYNOPSIS to see if the man page foo(X) is actually for a command/function named "foo" or if there's something else going on. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
