Re: man pages for C

In article <1143784160.097984.260130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jedi_Amara <doomfish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I use Linux (currently Ubuntu 5.10 AMD64) mainly as an aid to my
programming course. I would like to be able to use man to look up C
functions (eg. man sscanf, man 3 getopt) but the man pages for this do
not seem to be installed. Where can I get them and how can I install
them?

Install the manpages-dev package. It's a part of Ubuntu's standard
distribution.

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Rouben Rostamian
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