On Oct 13, 2004, at 1:14 PM, tedd wrote:

> W said:
>
>> The general stuff you may want to know can be found using the "man" 
>> pages.
>> Type "man" from the terminal and you get a list of the all the 
>> commands that
>> are available from your particular flavor of Unix.  man 'command' 
>> where command
>> is the particular command in question give you information about that 
>> specific
>> command.
>
> Oh sure...  that's another one of those things that works great for 
> me. For example:
>
> When I'm in the "Terminal" and I type "man", instead of getting a 
> manual, I get:
>
>      "What manual page do you want?"
>
> When I answer that with "1", I get:
>
>    "-bash: 1: command not found"
>
> When I answer "man 1", I get:

It wants to know what command you want the manual page for, not what 
page number :)

try man <command>

where <command> is the command of interest