From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Nov 27 10:15:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA12523 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 10:15:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA12503 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 10:14:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from freno.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.27.28] (may be forged)) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00322; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:37:52 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by freno.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA01702; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:37:51 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971127173751.39336@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:37:51 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Wolfram Schneider , Justin Lundy , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: Entire FreeBSD handbook in a Archive References: <19971127000819.22555@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: ; from Annelise Anderson on Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 05:56:30PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 1997-11-26 17:56:30 -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > > The up-to-date handbook is available from the FreeBSD Web Server > > > > or any mirror as PostScript and plain text (7 bit ASCII and 8-bit latin1) > > > > As PostScript (1.7MB) > > > > from the main Web Server > > > > fetch http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.ps > > > > As plain ASCII text (1048KB) > > > > fetch http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.ascii > > > > As plain ISO 8859-1 text (1048KB) > > > > fetch http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.latin1 > > > > > > That's okay if one is already running FreeBSD; how would you get the > > > whole thing from a dos/win system? > > > > with your favourite Web browser and the 'Save to disk' button ;-) > > That only gets about 12k--the index--because handbook.html isn't the > whole document; and my browser (Netscape) doesn't get all the > linked documents. Oh well. The html pages are available as gzip'd tar archive at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook-html.tar.gz or any mirror site. handbook-html.tar.gz is 432KByte large, uncompressed 1.8MB. -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/