On December 24, 2003 03:47 am, Peter L. Peres wrote:

Yes, you are right, up to a point. The manpages do not intend to tech you anything, they remind the programmer of all the details. For learning, use a book about programming or tutorials.

The man mmap consists of 192 lines. Your sample code has 8 lines. It makes all the difference between useful and useless. Why cannot the good people who write these man pages not include such gems? Thanks, John -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml