From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 28 13:43:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C2937B5EF for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 13:43:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA98424; Sun, 28 May 2000 19:22:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA47089; Sat, 27 May 2000 16:52:20 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 16:52:20 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Jim Mock Cc: Mark Ovens , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/18789: [PATCH] bad link in the handbook Message-ID: <20000527165220.B46877@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200005242240.PAA26509@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000525000150.I232@parish> <20000524163256.A460@luna.cdrom.com> <20000525004113.J232@parish> <20000524164945.A717@luna.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000524164945.A717@luna.cdrom.com>; from jim@luna.cdrom.com on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 04:49:45PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 04:49:45PM -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > > No, I just use the URL > > file:///usr/share/doc/en/books/handbook/index.html in Netscape. > > Ah ok, that's why :-) Netscape doesn't like if you leave off the > index.html when browsing a file directly. And so it shouldn't. If you leave a filename off then it shows you the directory listing. S'my cockup. As far as possible our documentation set shouldn't assume there's a web server running, as (IMHO), that's an unacceptable burden to place on someone who just wants to browse the documentation locally. I see Jim's closed this PR without making a change, so I'll do so. But for reference, Mark's patch included a whitespace change, which makes things a little harder for the translation teams, so I haven't included that part. Note that I've no objection to us using additional features that webservers can provide where necessary, I just don't want to depend on them where we can avoid it. For example, should someone feel like extending the stylesheets so that ls1 generates ls(1) in the HTML version that'd be great (hint, hint), as long as the code to do that is wrapped inside something like or similar (or, better still, was sufficiently modular that people could plug in their own URLs using some sort of format string, so we could submit it back to Norm). N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message