Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 00:52:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compress handbook & FAQ Message-ID: <199705222252.AAA00880@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970520122531.12404A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <199705191225.OAA00853@campa.panke.de> <Pine.BSI.3.94.970520122531.12404A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Annelise Anderson writes: >> I think we should commpress the handbook and the FAQ >> by default. Comments? > >As one who came to FreeBSD without knowing unix not so long ago, I >think the basic documents should be available (both on the hard drive >and on www.freebsd.org) in uncompressed plain text. Currently we ship the handbook in ascii *and* latin1 format. handbook.latin1 and handbook.ascii are more or less equal and this waste 1MB hard disk. I vote for killing the latin version, because latin1 seems still a problem for DOS/russian users. >Last time I looked, www.freebsd.org claims to offer the handbook and >FAQ in plain text, but it does not. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs If the ^H is a problem, you can easy remove the ^H with perl perl -npe 's/.\010//g' < handbook.ascii -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de> http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/
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