From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jan 2 16:03:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17886 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:03:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (baerenklau.de.freebsd.org [195.185.195.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17857 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA05249; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 01:03:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27202; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:30:14 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from wosch) Message-ID: <19990102193013.A27153@panke.de.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:30:13 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Nik Clayton Cc: Timothy J Luoma , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Several documentation questioons (all short) References: <199812250645.BAA11174@ocalhost> <19981228184247.E8797@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990101185917.A11635@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <19990101185917.A11635@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 06:59:17PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1999-01-01 18:59:17 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 06:42:47PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > On 1998-12-25 01:45:47 -0500, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > > 1) Is there a reason why there can't be gzipped versions of the handbook > > > offered in addition to the non-gzipped ones? > > > > No - except lack of time of the FreeBSD developers. > > Just to make clear that this will not be the case with the new Handbook. > PS, PDF, RTF, and Word .DOC versions can be generated from the Handbook > with relative ease (once I get the JadeTeX patches back and tested). Yes, but there are many other documents which are still in linuxdoc, e.g. FAQ, tutorials and many translations ;-/ > I don't see any reason (except, possibly, diskspace) why the Handbook > won't be available as handbook.{txt|pdf|ps|doc|rtf}.{gz|zip|bzip2} ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ you forgot the html version ;-) The various archive formats (gz, zip etc.) should be only distributed at the FTP server. HTTP is the wrong protocol for large files. We need a script which a) copy daily the handbook.* files from the web server to the FTP server. Same for the FAQ, tutorials and the translations (spanish, russian, japanese FAQ; etc.) b) add other archive formats a) can be performed with cvsup, using the -i option b) with a make file. -- Wolfram Schneider http://freebsd.org/~w/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message