Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:08:42 +0200 From: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs Message-ID: <20050406170842.5ad4f8f7.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <44ekdovtms.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <46dc360a050406071430fa3462@mail.gmail.com> <20050406142608.GA1246@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <44ekdovtms.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 06 Apr 2005 10:59:07 -0400 Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes: > > > On 2005-04-06 11:14, Don Kuzenko <indigomoon.ca@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a number of machines running FreeBSD and I would like to > > > create a local mirror of the documentation available on the > > > FreeBSD website. My problem is that I currently have a dial up > > > connection (rural living :-) > > > > > > Is there a simple way to obtain a tarball of a mirror of the docs > > > so that I can access the docs via a browser on my machine. > > > > If you only need HTML docs, I can build you a snapshot with a couple > > of formats, like FORMATS="html html-split", and upload it somewhere > > where you can grab it at your leisure. > > > > If you prefer copying the files yourself, you can recursively > > retrieve a copy of /pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1 from one of the > > FTP mirrors. > > I think the "data" cvsup collection might serve the purpose nicely > too. if the modem is a 2400bps then it might also be good to look at /usr/share/doc, as e.g. the handbook is there ;-)
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