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Linking man pages, but where to?
For Ubuntu derivatives, the canonical place is http://manpages.ubuntu.com1.
For Debian, it's http://manpages.debian.org.
For Linux system calls, and other kernel-related things, http://man7.org is ...
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Linking man pages, but where to?
For general UNIX and POSIX things, OpenBSD is often regarded as having the best documentation; and FreeBSD is a great choice, too.
The quickest way to link to either is through http://mdoc.su/, which ...
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Linking man pages, but where to?
Manuals that are installed on my system document the behaviour of my system.
Manuals found on a web site does not document the behaviour of my system.
Therefore, I tend to say "see the manual for ...
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Linking man pages, but where to?
Yes, Linux man-pages project is good. You can refer linuxcommand.org where you can find manpages for Fedora Core 4 by alphabetical index or function.
Example: manpage for man : man(1)
You can also ...
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