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Date:      Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:41:26 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>
To:        nik@FreeBSD.ORG, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: docs/6508: sgmlfmt does not expand relative URLs
Message-ID:  <19990411194126.48734@panke.de.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199904092125.OAA32384@freefall.freebsd.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 02:25:14PM -0700
References:  <199904092125.OAA32384@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 1999-04-09 14:25:14 -0700, nik@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: sgmlfmt does not expand relative URLs
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: nik
> State-Changed-When: Fri Apr 9 14:24:15 PDT 1999
> State-Changed-Why: 
> You can't use relative URLs in the Handbook / FAQ, because you don't
> know where it's going to be installed relative to the rest of the
> website (or even *if* it's going to be installed with the rest of
> the website).

??? 

The location of the handbook (/handbook/) and the FAQ (/FAQ/) 
is well known on the web site. The same is true for ports
projects, releases etc. 

Our web mirrors *require* relative paths. Even a 155Mbit/s
Internet link is easy to overload.

-- 
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org


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