Well, thanks Sean. Too much Windows habits I have :)<br>Must install Linux... Must intall Linux...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean Hinde</b> <<a href="mailto:sean.hinde@gmail.com">
sean.hinde@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>On 1 Nov 2006, at 21:23, Kirill Zaborski wrote:
<br><br>> Investigating Erlang official documents I see a moment which I do<br>> not understand:<br>> In a lot of chapters I see something like "gen_server(3)" mentioned<br>> (That's from <a href="http://www.erlang.org/doc/doc-5.5.1/doc/">
http://www.erlang.org/doc/doc-5.5.1/doc/</a><br>> design_principles/gen_server.html ). The first thought was about<br>> functions and their arity, but that's not a function of course. So<br>> what exactly is this?
<br><br>This follows the UNIX convention of including the man page chapter in<br>parentheses after the name. If you have downloaded and installed the<br>erlang man pages tar you can do:<br><br>% erl -man gen_server<br><br>
gen_server(3) ERLANG MODULE DEFINITION<br>gen_server(3)<br><br>MODULE<br> gen_server - Generic Server Behaviour<br><br>DESCRIPTION<br> A behaviour module for implementing the server of a client-
<br>server rela-<br> tion. A generic server process (gen_server) implemented using<br>this mod-<br> ule will have a standard set of interface functions and<br>include func-......<br><br><br>> And one more question: I occasionally find misprints in docs - Is
<br>> there any email where I should send information about them?<br><br>You could send them to <a href="mailto:erlang-bugs@erlang.org">erlang-bugs@erlang.org</a>, where with luck and a<br>following wind they will raise to the top of the priority list of
<br>someone at Ericsson.<br><br>BR,<br>Sean<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>