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Date:      Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:08:19 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, Justin Lundy <dblundy@ibm.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: REQ: Entire FreeBSD handbook in a Archive
Message-ID:  <19971127000819.22555@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126142035.6854C-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>; from Annelise Anderson on Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 02:28:40PM -0800
References:  <p1i2004hgpa.fsf@panke.panke.de> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126142035.6854C-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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On 1997-11-26 14:28:40 -0800, Annelise Anderson 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? 

with your favourite Web browser and the 'Save to disk' button ;-)


> Especially since the version of
> the complete document you can get with ftp is not up to date?

I know that the ftp links are out of date. Beat Jordan (or sent him
some beer from the czech republic ;-)! He is responsible for 
the FreeBSD ftp server.

-- 
Wolfram Schneider    <wosch@apfel.de>    http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/



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