Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:13:29 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook URLs : do they change? Message-ID: <19990208221315.TQUW682101.mta1-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <19990208193635.A15550@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19990208093028.VOCV678125.mta2-rme@wocker>
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On 8 Feb 99, at 19:36, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > > Do the handbook URLs change [frequently]? If so, is this a good thing? > > > > I ask because I often provide a URL into a particular section of the > > Handbook. But if the URLs change, this makes it impossible to reference > > the Handbook at all. > > The numeric names like "handbook43.html" may change, but many pages have > a link with a more descriptive name. > > $ cd /usr/doc/handbook > $ make FORMATS=html > > The file "handbook.ln" will then contain a list of the symbolic links > that will be created. If there is a descriptive name, you might be > better off using that. I had no /usr/doc directory, so I used /stand/sysinstall to add the doc distribution. But that wound up in /usr/share/doc. Issuing make FORMATS=html in that directory gives "make: no target to make". Am I in the right area? I would be nice to get that file created. However, I've found many symbolic links in that directory. Such as: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root www 16 Feb 7 18:49 mirrors-ca.html -> handbook340.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 root www 16 Feb 7 18:49 mirrors-ar.html -> handbook340.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 root www 16 Feb 7 18:49 mirrors-au.html -> handbook340.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 root www 16 Feb 7 18:49 mirrors-afs.html -> handbook343.html This looks more like what I need. Thanks. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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