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Date:      Tue, 07 May 2002 09:54:45 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Links within the Handbook 
Message-ID:  <200205071654.g47GsjtE018079@intruder.bmah.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020507164915.GA55559@submonkey.net> 
References:  <20020507161357.GA15017@submonkey.net> <20020507164915.GA55559@submonkey.net>

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If memory serves me right, Ceri Davies wrote:

> 1) Make symlinks for all the books and articles like we do now for the
>    FAQ and handbook (this really sucks);
> 
> 2) Get wosch to redirect /FAQ and /handbook in httpd.conf instead of using
>    symlinks, and expect everyone running a mirror to do the same (wooh, that
>    bites);
> 
> 3) Change all of these ulinks so that they're absolute and not relative,
>    and then head back into doc/en_US..., and expect translators to fix
>    this themselves when they do a translation (ouch).
> 
> I think 3 is the closest to what we'll eventually need to do, but all three
> suck in different ways.

In addition, #3 is the only one that isn't broken for printed output.  I
have this dim recollection of someone spending cycles on the "relative
URLs vs. printed output" problem before, but I am not sure what
happened.

Bruce.



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