Re: Man page sections

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

Doesn't make sense to me either...

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