From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jun 27 12:29:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep12-int.chello.nl (amsfep12-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E47537B405 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hibernate.cryolabs.net ([213.132.151.88]) by amsfep12-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with SMTP id <20020627192917.QXBK28368.amsfep12-int.chello.nl@hibernate.cryolabs.net> for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:29:17 +0200 Received: (qmail 2192 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2002 21:29:13 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO ice.cryolabs.net) (192.168.196.1) by hibernate.cryolabs.net with SMTP; 27 Jun 2002 21:29:13 +0200 Received: from cocaine.cryolabs.net (cocaine.cryolabs.net [192.168.196.5]) by ice.cryolabs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D5C37C; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:28:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Readme for Windows Users From: Wouter Van Hemel To: Nik Clayton Cc: Ross Lippert , tomi.hasa@tut.fi, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020627182737.GB46584@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <1025195851.16201.14.camel@cocaine> <200206271707.KAA06034@eskimo.com> <20020627182737.GB46584@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 27 Jun 2002 21:29:38 +0200 Message-Id: <1025206178.204.33.camel@cocaine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 20:27, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:07:10AM -0700, Ross Lippert wrote: > > > > >book.html.tar.gz Handbook in html format and gzip compression > > >book.pdf.gz Handbook in pdf format and gzip compression > > >book.ps.gz Handbook in postscript format and gzip compression > > >[...] > > > > > >Or how do you see it? > > > > Why not? Although the naming convention chosen may be obvious to > > you and I, perhaps it is not so plain to someone else. Is it wrong > > to err on the side of moronity? > > I covered those bases months ago. > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/README > > Or perhaps even: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/support.html#DOC-FORMATS > > Sadly, people still refuse to read them. And there's not a lot I can do > about that. > But if you get there a level higher through a link, you don't see them. That's probably how most people get there... they probably don't know the tree as well as some of us who can see it scrolling through their dreams (nightmares?). Well, that's exactly what I meant by readme-file. Tomi, do you remember where the reference (or link) was that you followed to get there? Maybe we can add a fast link to this readme there too. > N > -- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) > FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) > \/ \ ^ > --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message