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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2000 00:41:13 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        Jim Mock <jim@luna.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/18789: [PATCH] bad link in the handbook
Message-ID:  <20000525004113.J232@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000524163256.A460@luna.cdrom.com>; from jim@luna.cdrom.com on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 04:32:56PM -0700
References:  <200005242240.PAA26509@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000525000150.I232@parish> <20000524163256.A460@luna.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 04:32:56PM -0700, Jim Mock wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2000 at 00:01:50 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:40:01PM -0700, Jim Mock wrote:
> > > The following reply was made to PR docs/18789; it has been noted by GNATS.
> > > 
> > > From: Jim Mock <jim@luna.cdrom.com>
> > > To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
> > > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
> > > Subject: Re: docs/18789: [PATCH] bad link in the handbook
> > > Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:39:23 -0700
> > > 
> > >  On Tue, 23 May 2000 at 19:00:21 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > >  
> > >  [snip..]
> > >  
> > >  > >Description:
> > >  > 
> > >  > 	The link to the Porters Handbook in the Ports section of the
> > >  > 	handbook has an incomplete URL. It only points to the directory,
> > >  > 	not index.html
> > >  
> > >  Going to http://www.FreeBSD.org/porters-handbook/ works fine for me
> > >  -- were you having problems getting the index.html file to load
> > >  (i.e., getting just a directory listing)? If there wasn't any
> > >  problem, I'm going to close this PR -- the index.html tacked onto
> > >  the end isn't really needed.
> > >  
> > 
> > I just get a directory listing with my local docs, but links from the
> > FAQ to handbook work OK (they have /index.html on the end) so I was
> > just copying this.
> 
> Do you have apache set up to use index.html as a default document
> locally? :-)
> 

No, I just use the URL
file:///usr/share/doc/en/books/handbook/index.html in Netscape.

> - jim
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