Re: [bug-gawk] Manual section of core extensions manpages

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi Manuel.

> I'm mostly a Windows user, and not a Unix/Linux one.

My sympathies. :-)

> Apologies if what 
> follows doesn't make sense.
>
> The man pages of the core extensions (filefuncs, fnmatch, etc.) are 
> declared as section "3am" ones. But hey get finally installed in a 
> "man3" subdirectory.
>
> Commands like
>
>     man filefuncs
>     man 3 filefuncs
>
> succeed, but the command
>
>     man 3am filefuncs
>
> fails.
>
> Is this the expected behavior?

I think so.  The ".3am" is my invention: "am" => awk module. I think the
'man' program would need updating to understand that .3am is in section 3
of the manual so that it would look in the right place.

I think that Perl uses "pm" for "perl module" but it's likely that 'man'
knows about that.

Thanks,

Arnold