From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Nov 16 22:18:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22706 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:18:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA22698 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:18:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA06175; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 01:17:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981117011717.A6142@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 01:17:17 -0500 From: "Norman C. Rice" To: Sue Blake Cc: Kent Foster , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook? References: <001901be11db$7c31c8a0$94ca2599@clark> <19981116224541.A5680@emu.sourcee.com> <19981117154535.21328@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981117154535.21328@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 03:45:36PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 03:45:36PM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:45:41PM -0500, Norman C. Rice wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 09:36:32PM -0600, Kent Foster wrote: > > > I can't seem to find a downloadable copy of the handbook. Any suggestions > > > or links? I want something that I can open with MS Word and print up. I > > > suppose plain text is the best. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > kent@seductive.com > > > > Go to http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html and read > > the first paragraph -- it contains several links. > > Trouble is, he wants something he can just print out from windows, > with no fooling around. Not much trouble here -- just download the file as text, open a DOS window, and type copy handbook.latin1 lpt1 -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > The "plain text" version looks like it would be in unix text format, > maybe requiring 'col -b' under unix (which is hard if you haven't > installed it yet). Someone correct me if I'm wrong. > > The alternative would be to use the nice PDF version of the Handbook, > though the PDF reader is a pretty hefty download from adobe.com. > The postscript version of any *.gz probably won't be very usable under > microsoft. > > Now I seem to remember we discussed this before, and that there was a > microsoft-friendly text version somewhere. Why can't I see it?? Maybe > another docs person will give the exact URL. > > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message