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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Monday, April 7, 2003 10:53:53 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Sunday, April 6, 2003 8:51:12 pm by zcat(1) Revert
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  sections="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 n l" 
  
 Remove the __"3"__. Run __/usr/sbin/makewhatis__ again, and the section (3) entries will be gone. 
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+--GlynWebster  
  
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-__alias apropos='apropos | grep -v "(3)"'__ does the same job, and is a little easier to undo when you happen to  
- be programming and want those entries back.. 
+__alias apropos='apropos | grep -v "(3)"'__ does the same job, and is a little easier to undo when you happen to be programming and want those entries back.. --zcat(1)  
  
+True, but does ''anyone'' use man(1) to look up programming documention? --GlynWebster  
  
+All the time! Whenever I'm programming in [C] or [C++] (or occasionally [Python] and [Perl], if calling libc functions from there). What better way to refresh your memory of the correct order of arguments for memset(3), or to find out which header files you need to #include if you want to call the inet_addr(3) function? Sure beats getting out of the chair and finding a reference book :) --JohnMcPherson  
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 [1] This where Mandrake and RedHat keep __makewhatis__. [YMMV].