Subject: Re: a question about man
To: Max Bell <mbell@europa.com>
From: Eric S. Hvozda <hvozda@netcom.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/19/1995 11:16:17
On Wed, 19 Jul 95 07:53 PDT  Max Bell wrote:
> I also use 1.0 and have noticed that "man" ignores section specifiers.  If I
> ask for "man 2 write", I always get write(1) instead.  Currently, I just cd
> into the right directory and nroff the desired page myself, but . . .

If I recall, this is a well known bug.  

Basically, man won't see sections if MANPATH is set.  Try unsetting it and
running man again.  I think you'll get your section in that case...