From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 14:57:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B481016A420 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:57:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eric@schultznet.ca) Received: from dfw002.8inet.com (dfw002.8inet.com [72.232.12.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F4A43D45 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:57:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eric@schultznet.ca) Received: from [206.162.187.199] (helo=[172.22.100.67]) by dfw002.8inet.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1F52Mu-0006Di-DS; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:57:00 -0500 Message-ID: <43E36F37.5090400@schultznet.ca> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:56:55 -0500 From: Eric Schultz Organization: SchultzNet.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lowell Gilbert References: <43E24A73.3060400@schultznet.ca> <44fyn0k4zn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44fyn0k4zn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - dfw002.8inet.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - schultznet.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I download an older version of PDF Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:57:01 -0000 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 A newer version of the Handbook won't necessarily have less information 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/