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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 
> The Hermit Hacker writes:
> 
> > isn't there a doc on what each section is "meant for"?  for instance,
> > section 3 is generally where you find language man pages (ie. getopt(),
> > printf()) ...
> 
> 1 - User commands
> 2 - System calls
> 3 - C library functions
> 4 - Devices
> 5 - File formats
> 6 - Games
> 7 - Miscellaneous
> 8 - System administration commands

This is for BSD, in SysV 7 is for devices. 
l is usually for local and n for new. 
(UNIX System Administration Handbook. 2nd ed., E. Nemeth et al.)

> Doesn't make sense to me either...
> 
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> Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders vÄg 10:115
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Vladimir Tchoukharev