Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:51:57 -0600 From: suvani_kaura@agilent.com To: marko@freebsd.org Cc: andrew@cream.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Question about the Handbook Message-ID: <3BA28805BB22D41183A2009027AA5AFA01018A00@axand03.an.hp.com>
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Hi Mark, I pointed this out to Andrew as well, and dont think its a problem with = IE, but just the path that your web page has for the "doc" directory.. [.. the links that you have on = http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html page for getting to the ftp sites, take you to pages like ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc which are blank because the = trailing "/" is not appended to the address -- was kindof tricky to remember = that it has to be there.. but all worked smooth after we put the slash in the address text box in IE. I was wondering if thats a problem with your server... ] Thanks for following up on it so well, though. Regards, Suvani. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Ovens [mailto:marko@freebsd.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 2:32 PM To: suvani_kaura@agilent.com Cc: Andrew Boothman; doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about the Handbook On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:19:40PM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote: >=20 > On 13-Sep-00 suvani_kaura@agilent.com wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > I have been trying to download a copy of the BSD handbook as a > > PDF/Postscript file .. so I can view it as one document, rather = than follow > > links to view each page. However when I click on the FTP page, I = only get a > > blank document.. I am using IE4.. please advise. >=20 > It's difficult to say why you may be having problems, try using a = proper, > dedicated FTP program like CuteFTP insead of your web browser. I have = just > checked, and had no problem in downloading and viewing=20 > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/handbook/book.pdf.gz which is a > compressed version of the handbook in PDF format. >=20 It is possibly because IE4 doesn't know what to do with a .gz file and so tries to display it and, depending on the first few bytes of the file, it may just display an blank page, e.g. if 0x1a (Ctrl-Z, the DOS EOF) is there. If you have WinZip installed though it should have set up a file type for .gz so IE4 will fire up WinZip. > You may want to also check that your PDF viewing program (probably = Adobe's > Acrobat Reader) is working properly, you may want to download a new version > from www.adobe.com >=20 > --- > Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> > http://sour.cream.org >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message --=20 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44=B0N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057=B0W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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