Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 00:53:03 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, Timothy J Luoma <public+FreeBSD@fdt.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Several documentation questioons (all short) Message-ID: <19990103005303.A8643@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19990102193013.A27153@panke.de.freebsd.org>; from Wolfram Schneider on Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 07:30:13PM %2B0100 References: <199812250645.BAA11174@ocalhost> <19981228184247.E8797@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990101185917.A11635@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990102193013.A27153@panke.de.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 07:30:13PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> > Just to make clear that this will not be the case with the new Handbook.
> > PS, PDF, RTF, and Word .DOC versions can be generated from the Handbook
> > with relative ease (once I get the JadeTeX patches back and tested).
>
> Yes, but there are many other documents which are still in
> linuxdoc, e.g. FAQ, tutorials and many translations ;-/
Yes. As soon as I get the Handbook off my back I plan on tackling the
FAQ.
Which reminds me, I need to write an e-mail to the FAQ maintainer --
Doug White I think. . .
> > I don't see any reason (except, possibly, diskspace) why the Handbook
> > won't be available as handbook.{txt|pdf|ps|doc|rtf}.{gz|zip|bzip2}
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> you forgot the html version ;-)
Oops.
FWIW, I've spent large chunks of today doing battle with make(1), and
a commit to come will see a new Makefile for doc/en/handbook which
handles building and installing the Handbook in multiple versions, and
immediate support for .gz, .bz2, and .zip compression formats.
> The various archive formats (gz, zip etc.) should be only distributed
> at the FTP server. HTTP is the wrong protocol for large files.
Agreed.
> We need a script which
> a) copy daily the handbook.* files from
> the web server to the FTP server. Same for the FAQ,
> tutorials and the translations (spanish, russian, japanese
> FAQ; etc.)
> b) add other archive formats
>
> a) can be performed with cvsup, using the -i option
> b) with a make file.
Also agreed.
As I say, (b) is almost ready to go on public display.
N
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