From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Nov 26 18:06:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA18123 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 18:06:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA18089 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 18:06:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA00458; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:56:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:56:30 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson Reply-To: Annelise Anderson To: Wolfram Schneider cc: Justin Lundy , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: Entire FreeBSD handbook in a Archive In-Reply-To: <19971127000819.22555@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > 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 ;-) That only gets about 12k--the index--because handbook.html isn't the whole document; and my browser (Netscape) doesn't get all the linked documents. Oh well. AA > > > > 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 I know that the ftp links are out of date.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 http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/ >