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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:08:19 +0100
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, Justin Lundy <dblundy@ibm.net>,
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Subject: Re: REQ: Entire FreeBSD handbook in a Archive
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On 1997-11-26 14:28:40 -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote:
> > The up-to-date handbook is available from the FreeBSD Web Server
> > or any mirror as PostScript and plain text (7 bit ASCII and 8-bit latin1)
> > 
> > As PostScript (1.7MB)
> > 
> >         from the main Web Server
> >                 fetch http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.ps
> > 
> >         from the german Web mirror
> >                 fetch -h www.de.freebsd.org -f /handbook/handbook.ps
> > 
> > As plain ASCII text (1048KB)
> > 	        fetch http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.ascii
> > As plain ISO 8859-1 text (1048KB)
> > 	        fetch http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.latin1
> 
> That's okay if one is already running FreeBSD; how would you get the
> whole thing from a dos/win system? 

with your favourite Web browser and the 'Save to disk' button ;-)


> Especially since the version of
> the complete document you can get with ftp is not up to date?

I know that the ftp links are out of date. Beat Jordan (or sent him
some beer from the czech republic ;-)! He is responsible for 
the FreeBSD ftp server.

-- 
Wolfram Schneider    <wosch@apfel.de>    http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/