How do you switch between Linux manual pages?

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Published on 2011-11-13T21:01:38Z Indexed on 2011/11/14 1:55 UTC
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I'm new with Linux and have noticed that there are numbers beside certain commands I look up.

For example I want to look up accept() in the aspect of network programming, but man accept shows this instead:

accept(8)                   Easy Software Products                   accept(8)

NAME
       accept/reject - accept/reject jobs sent to a destination

So how do you switch between manual pages to other numbers like accept(1) ~ accept(7)?

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