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Date:      Fri, 23 May 1997 00:52:27 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>
To:        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compress handbook & FAQ
Message-ID:  <199705222252.AAA00880@campa.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970520122531.12404A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
References:  <199705191225.OAA00853@campa.panke.de> <Pine.BSI.3.94.970520122531.12404A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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Annelise Anderson writes:
>> I think we should commpress the handbook and the FAQ
>> by default. Comments?
>
>As one who came to FreeBSD without knowing unix not so long ago, I
>think the basic documents should be available (both on the hard drive
>and on www.freebsd.org) in uncompressed plain text.

Currently we ship the handbook in ascii *and* latin1 format.
handbook.latin1 and handbook.ascii are more or less equal and this
waste 1MB hard disk. I vote for killing the latin version, because
latin1 seems still a problem for DOS/russian users.


>Last time I looked, www.freebsd.org claims to offer the handbook and
>FAQ in plain text, but it does not.

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs

If the ^H is a problem, you can easy remove the ^H with perl

	 perl -npe 's/.\010//g' < handbook.ascii

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



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