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Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? 
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Download

  http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.ascii

The only thing that's missing here is a link from

  http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html

freebsd-doc has been cc'd.  Can we make the link ?

> i think everyone is missing the point!
> no one is looking for instructions on how-to 
> generate an ASCII Handbook on a BSD machine!
> 
> some of us wish an ASCII version was available
> 
> 1. for DOS users that can't "col -b" and 
> "more" with highlights they don't have, etc.
> 
> 2. for people they don't like clicking around 
> HTML pages for little bits (hard to print also).
> 
> 3. for people that aren't doing postscript.
> 
> i think it is rude when people are FORCED to make do
> with proprietary/non-ASCII formats.  the government,
> for example forces you to have MS Word to read
> their docs or apply for some things.
> 
> ASCII can be read by any computer/OS,
> and i think all docs should contain at
> least one ASCII version.
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