Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:44:52 -0500 (EST) From: Timothy J Luoma <public+FreeBSD@fdt.net> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Several documentation questioons (all short) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9812281438200.25708-100000@yoda.fdt.net> In-Reply-To: <19981228184247.E8797@panke.de.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, 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. It that something that a brainless newbie (ie me) could help with? > > I saved 15% on the PDF version and XX% on the .ps version > > The PDF version is for windows users which does not have postscript > readers and gzip archiver. It should not be gzip'ed. OK, I can understand that but gzip -c handbook.pdf >handbook.pdf.gz would give both (I'm sure you knew that already) > The html, asci and ps versions are updated daily at the > Web server www.freebsd.org > The pdf version at the FTP server will be randomly > updated by hand every quarter or so ... Unfortunately the PS version doesn't look right for me under NeXTStep (the pages all go off the far right margin) and I wanted a printable/formatted version, so I needed the PDF one (which looked fine except for a few places). Another possilby dumb q: I have the 2.2.7 CDs, is there a way for me to generate the PDF handbook off those? (I don't have a working FreeBSD system yet, but I can mount the CDs under NeXTstep and if I can make the handbook.PDF file off whatever documentation is there, I would use that. Thanks for your time in helping me get started on this TjL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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