From: kissg@sztaki.hu (Gabor Kiss) Subject: Re: How to print man pages ? Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 14:19:17 GMT
In article 1u0e3qEhj3@uni-erlangen.de, fn0601@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Kurs-01) writes:
>Second question: 'man tin' works fine, but 'man 1 tin' says
>'no manual page for tin in section 1' ! WHY?
>(The tin manual page IS in section 1)
I found that there is a bug in man. It doesn't find compressed man pages
if a section number is given.
Try:
man passwd
man 1 passwd
man 4 passwd
Gabor Kiss