Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:30:13 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: Timothy J Luoma <public+FreeBSD@fdt.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Several documentation questioons (all short) Message-ID: <19990102193013.A27153@panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19990101185917.A11635@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 06:59:17PM %2B0000 References: <199812250645.BAA11174@ocalhost> <19981228184247.E8797@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990101185917.A11635@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On 1999-01-01 18:59:17 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 06:42:47PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> > On 1998-12-25 01:45:47 -0500, Timothy J Luoma wrote:
> > > 1) Is there a reason why there can't be gzipped versions of the handbook
> > > offered in addition to the non-gzipped ones?
> >
> > No - except lack of time of the FreeBSD developers.
>
> 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 ;-/
> 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 ;-)
The various archive formats (gz, zip etc.) should be only distributed
at the FTP server. HTTP is the wrong protocol for large files.
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.
--
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://freebsd.org/~w/
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