From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Dec 28 11:45:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08654 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 11:45:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from yoda.fdt.net (yoda.fdt.net [209.212.128.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08648 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 11:45:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from public@fdt.net) Received: from localhost (public@localhost) by yoda.fdt.net with ESMTP id OAA26373; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:44:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:44:52 -0500 (EST) From: Timothy J Luoma X-Sender: public@yoda.fdt.net To: Wolfram Schneider cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Several documentation questioons (all short) In-Reply-To: <19981228184247.E8797@panke.de.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > On 1998-12-25 01:45:47 -0500, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > 1) Is there a reason why there can't be gzipped versions of the handbook > > offered in addition to the non-gzipped ones? > > No - except lack of time of the FreeBSD developers. It that something that a brainless newbie (ie me) could help with? > > I saved 15% on the PDF version and XX% on the .ps version > > The PDF version is for windows users which does not have postscript > readers and gzip archiver. It should not be gzip'ed. OK, I can understand that but gzip -c handbook.pdf >handbook.pdf.gz would give both (I'm sure you knew that already) > The html, asci and ps versions are updated daily at the > Web server www.freebsd.org > The pdf version at the FTP server will be randomly > updated by hand every quarter or so ... Unfortunately the PS version doesn't look right for me under NeXTStep (the pages all go off the far right margin) and I wanted a printable/formatted version, so I needed the PDF one (which looked fine except for a few places). Another possilby dumb q: I have the 2.2.7 CDs, is there a way for me to generate the PDF handbook off those? (I don't have a working FreeBSD system yet, but I can mount the CDs under NeXTstep and if I can make the handbook.PDF file off whatever documentation is there, I would use that. Thanks for your time in helping me get started on this TjL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message