[SLUG] Broken symlinks

[Al Girling]

On Friday 20 September 2002 11:48 am, Gavin wrote:
> > is this what I'm supposed to look at?
>
> Yep. When you see something like "dir_colors(5)" it means the
> "dir_colors" manpage (which is in section 5). So just type "man 5
> dir_colors" to read it.
>
> There are some manpages which exist more than once, in different
> sections, which is why references to manpages usually have the section
> number. (for example printf(1) and printf(3)).
>
> The actual files you found in /usr/share/man/man5 are the manpage
> formatted documents (groff), compressed with bzip2(1) to save space, and
> are read by man(1) :)

Brilliant!  This is exactly what I need.

Many thanks.

Al