Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:56:30 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: Justin Lundy <dblundy@ibm.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: Entire FreeBSD handbook in a Archive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126151941.7469A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <19971127000819.22555@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > 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 ;-) That only gets about 12k--the index--because handbook.html isn't the whole document; and my browser (Netscape) doesn't get all the linked documents. Oh well. AA > > > > 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 I know that the ftp links are out of date.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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