how to see the list of all the function names 7200

(I left HatRed for MandrX a couple of years ago after they abandoned the market segment I'm in.)

HatRed 7.3 is terribly old. You should really update to a more modern distro to close all the security vulnerabilities in 7.3 that all the blackhats have known about for many months--unless you're using the fedoralegacy (sp?) stuff to keep updated, if they even support 7.3.

First step is to find where your man pages are. Try 'echo $MANPATH' and check the paths shown. (The paths are separated by commas.) If that doesn't show anything useful, try 'slocate man3'. That should give you a starting path. If not, poke around until you find one. Maybe, you could do 'rpm -qi $pkg' on a few packages to find where they put their man pages. (Replace $pkg with the package name.)

Second step is to do 'ls' on that directory. On my MandrX LE2005 system, 'lsusr-share-man-man3' shows 6167 entries. Many are for languages other than C, though.

That should at least get you started looking for functions that might be useful. Another approach would be to get a book with a section listing commonly available functions grouped topically.

-- Robert Riches (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)