From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 30 11:18:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8C6837B6F9 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 11:18:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 17402 invoked from network); 30 May 2000 18:18:25 -0000 Received: from useraw35.uk.uudial.com (HELO parish.my.domain) (62.188.138.181) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 30 May 2000 18:18:25 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00953; Tue, 30 May 2000 19:15:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 23:44:32 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Nik Clayton Cc: Jim Mock , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/18789: [PATCH] bad link in the handbook Message-ID: <20000528234432.B233@parish> References: <200005242240.PAA26509@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000525000150.I232@parish> <20000524163256.A460@luna.cdrom.com> <20000525004113.J232@parish> <20000524164945.A717@luna.cdrom.com> <20000527165220.B46877@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000527165220.B46877@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Sat, May 27, 2000 at 04:52:20PM +0000 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 04:52:20PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > 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, Really? Where? I've just looked at the diff in the PR and I can't see it. > which makes > things a little harder for the translation teams, so I haven't included > that part. > Fair enough, it was unintentional > 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 -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message