On 02 May 2006 15:59, Charles D. Russell wrote: > According to Charles D. Russell on 5/2/2006 6:55 AM: >> Is there somewhere I can download the *.2 manpages for functions >> available in cygwin? > > Eric Blake wrote: > > Not all the functions have man pages in cygwin - volunteers are welcome to > help write some. Having said that, the web is your friend - most of the > cygwin syscalls are modeled after Linux, so looking at Linux man pages is > usually a good start (although not always accurate on cygwin); also POSIX > and SUSv3 are freely available standards on the web, with pretty good > descriptions of what a portable implementation will do.
> Best I've found so far is > http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/doc/man/hpux.section_top.html The Opengroup posix spec is really the canonical one, hp's man pages are liable to have hp-ux specific parts. Download it from http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/download/ cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
