From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 14:13:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13259 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:13:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13163 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:13:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990208221315.TQUW682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:13:15 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Ben Smithurst Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:13:29 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Handbook URLs : do they change? Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19990208193635.A15550@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19990208093028.VOCV678125.mta2-rme@wocker> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990208221315.TQUW682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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