Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:56:55 -0500 From: Eric Schultz <eric@schultznet.ca> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I download an older version of PDF Handbook Message-ID: <43E36F37.5090400@schultznet.ca> In-Reply-To: <44fyn0k4zn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <43E24A73.3060400@schultznet.ca> <44fyn0k4zn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Good morning... Lowell Gilbert wrote: > A newer version of the Handbook won't necessarily have less information > relevant to your system; just more information relevant to later > versions. I seem to remember reading a thread in freebsd-docs that discussed forking the book when things changed between versions. > > I suppose the easiest way to do it would be to extract it from the docs > collection of an install disk. You'll need a tar program for your > Windows box and a program that understands the compression scheme used > on the tarball. The tarball is split(1) into a bunch of files for > packaging convenience, but I think the Windows "copy" command can handle > that. Yup that worked, thanks! ISOBuster to extract the doc directory from the 4.7-mini ISO copy doc.* /B doc.tgz (note the /B to indicate binary was important, without it I ended up with a 20 byte .tgz file) and then 7-Zip to extract the files I wanted. Thanks again. -- Headed for the second star to the right and straight on 'til morning... Eric Schultz (aka Storkman) Photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/schultznet Homepage: http://www.schultznet.ca Blog: http://schultznet.blogspot.com/
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