From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Nov 24 11:53:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA28767 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:53:03 -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 LAA28758 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:53:01 -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 LAA09034; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:46:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:46:36 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Sean Kelly cc: Justin Lundy , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: Entire FreeBSD handbook in a Archive In-Reply-To: <3476EFAC.11EC5EA4@fsl.noaa.gov> 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 Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Sean Kelly wrote: > > If the entire FreeBSD handbook was available in an Archive--both Html and > > plain ascii text, I feel that a larger quantity of people would be passed a > > copy to read, or either print it out. > > This is a good idea. Sometimes when you're after some specific bit of > information, there's nothing quite like a grep through the entire handbook, > and without having to be online to use the web search. It is available, on the hard drive in /usr/share/docs or wherever, and on ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/docs in latin1, ascii, and ps, as a single document. However, the ftp site docs are dated May 1997, so I guess they are not kept up to date. > > Actually, something that would help FreeBSD's professional presence is a PDF > version of the handbook. Has anyone made the latex version, used some nice > fonts, cleaned it up here and there, and tried running a free PDF creator? > (This is something I definitely could've used yesterday while preparing a > portfolio of work I've done (I wanted to include the printing chapter from the > handbook).) > > --Sean Annelise