From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Nov 26 14:29:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA25172 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:29:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA25158 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:29:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA07193; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:28:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:28:40 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson Reply-To: Annelise Anderson To: Wolfram Schneider cc: Justin Lundy , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: Entire FreeBSD handbook in a Archive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 25 Nov 1997, Wolfram Schneider 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 > > from the german Web mirror > fetch -h www.de.freebsd.org -f /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? Especially since the version of the complete document you can get with ftp is not up to date? Annelise