From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 15:08:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DBF16A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:08:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B6543D39 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:08:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:9991 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJC95-000NHT-Cl for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:08:43 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F3CF15439A for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:09:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (f80052.upc-f.chello.nl [80.56.80.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C287558C843 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:08:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:08:42 +0200 From: "albi@scii.nl" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050406170842.5ad4f8f7.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <44ekdovtms.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <46dc360a050406071430fa3462@mail.gmail.com> <20050406142608.GA1246@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <44ekdovtms.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: docs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:08:44 -0000 On 06 Apr 2005 10:59:07 -0400 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > > On 2005-04-06 11:14, Don Kuzenko wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a number of machines running FreeBSD and I would like to > > > create a local mirror of the documentation available on the > > > FreeBSD website. My problem is that I currently have a dial up > > > connection (rural living :-) > > > > > > Is there a simple way to obtain a tarball of a mirror of the docs > > > so that I can access the docs via a browser on my machine. > > > > If you only need HTML docs, I can build you a snapshot with a couple > > of formats, like FORMATS="html html-split", and upload it somewhere > > where you can grab it at your leisure. > > > > If you prefer copying the files yourself, you can recursively > > retrieve a copy of /pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1 from one of the > > FTP mirrors. > > I think the "data" cvsup collection might serve the purpose nicely > too. if the modem is a 2400bps then it might also be good to look at /usr/share/doc, as e.g. the handbook is there ;-)