Re: Why complicated directory structure in Linux

John Hasler wrote:
Michael writes:
Oddly in this case, the obvious "man bin" or something like that doesn't
turn up any pages.

"man man" seems a little bit obvious.

BTW it's a man page because it is a page from the (now mythical) printed
manual, which had an index and table of contents. It surely would be
possible to generate those now for the online manual, but there's no point:
no one would use them.

Yes, the paper manual had an index, but it was useless. Man pages were
nroff-ed and troff-ed separately, so the index gave "Page 1" as the starting
page for all the man pages.

Try "man -a intro".


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