Date: 27 Jun 2002 18:37:30 +0200 From: Wouter Van Hemel <wouter@pair.com> To: Tomi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4s=E4?= <tomi.hasa@tut.fi> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Readme for Windows Users Message-ID: <1025195851.16201.14.camel@cocaine> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.44.0206271857370.29000-100000@assari.cc.tut.fi> References: <Pine.OSF.4.44.0206271857370.29000-100000@assari.cc.tut.fi>
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On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 18:02, Tomi H=E4s=E4 wrote: > Greetings, >=20 > I didn't tell my thoughts clearly enough. I meant that for a slow dial-up > connection you don't want to download all the files on >=20 > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/handbook >=20 > You just want to download one file, and then close the dial-up connection= . > A small readme.txt would be nice to tell me what I should download, so I > don't have to experiment with the files. >=20 Isn't the extension of the file clear enough? For instance, ps for PostScript, txt for plaintext format, pdf for... well, pdf's... ;) You just have to download one file - the format you want, with the compression technique you want. Ofcourse, there could be a readme file, but wouldn't it be a bit moronic to have something like 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? Kind regards, wouter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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