From owner-freebsd-doc Thu May 22 16:01:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA15463 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 22 May 1997 16:01:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de (bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA15452 for ; Thu, 22 May 1997 16:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous216.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.216]) by bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA20580; Fri, 23 May 1997 01:01:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id AAA00880; Fri, 23 May 1997 00:52:27 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 00:52:27 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199705222252.AAA00880@campa.panke.de> From: Wolfram Schneider To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Wolfram Schneider , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compress handbook & FAQ In-Reply-To: References: <199705191225.OAA00853@campa.panke.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/