RE: Procedure Management Procedures

["alan shore" <SHOREA@xxxxxxxx>]

This is part of the UNIX operating system. you type
man getenv
press Enter, and a display of the command in question (in this case - getenv) 
is shown to the requestor.

>>> "Smith, Nelson" <NSmith@lincare.com> 08/29/01 08:59AM >>>
Cool.  How is this generated, stored, accessed, etc?   Is there a utility
that manages it all?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Rich [SMTP:james@eaerich.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:40 PM
> To:   rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Procedure Management Procedures
>
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 Seth.D.Shields@blum.com wrote:
>
> > > One of the most useful things we have done is to create on
> > line documentation similar to UNIX man pages.
> >
> > For those of us who are UNIX illiterate, what is a UNIX man page?
>
> man pages are a collection of documentation in a standard format sorted by
> topic.  The man page for getenv() (chosen because of the recent discussion
> here) looks like this:
>
>
> GETENV(3)           Linux Programmer's Manual           GETENV(3)
>
> NAME
>        getenv - get an environment variable
>
> SYNOPSIS
>        #include <stdlib.h>
>
>        char *getenv(const char *name);
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        The  getenv() function searches the environment list for a
>        string that matches the string pointed to  by  name.   The
>        strings are of the form name Ýalue.
>
> RETURN VALUE
>        The  getenv()  function  returns a pointer to the value in
>        the environment, or NULL if there is no match.
>
> CONFORMING TO
>        SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899
>
> SEE ALSO
>        putenv(3), setenv(3), unsetenv(3), environ(5)
>
> GNU                         1993-04-03                  GETENV(3)
>
>
> This is the format we use to document our procedures.
>
> James Rich
> james@eaerich.com
>
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