Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 09:33:57 -0400 (EDT) From: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber) To: jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: jcassidy@proton.genesoft.com, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ascii version Message-ID: <199507171333.JAA06907@grendel.csc.smith.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9507161152.E7939-0100000@kryten.atinc.com> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jul 16, 95 11:10:42 am
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Jonathan M. Bresler writes: > On Sun, 16 Jul 1995 jcassidy@proton.genesoft.com wrote: > > Hello, where might I find an ascii version of the Handbook? > > I'm at the cottage and would like to read through it, but > > would rather read it offline due to long distance charges. > > > > If you could provide me with an ftp site and path name, I > > would be grateful. > > if you have the sgml and a system running, you can use 'sgmlfmt > -ascii <file>' to get the ascii version. it really does leave something > to be desired. Or you can fetch http://www.freebsd.org/How/handbook/handbook.txt. Even better, you can grab the HTML files (http://www.freebsd.org/How/handbook/handbook-html.tar.gz) and view them offline using your favorite HTML browser. Just start with the file handbook.html. And yes, the ASCII version leaves a LOT to be desired, like cross references, decent formatting and the like. -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ========== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===
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