atom feed9 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-docRe: REQ: Entire FreeBSD handbook in a...
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Justin LundyNov 21, 1997 8:07 pm 
Sean KellyNov 22, 1997 6:43 am 
Annelise AndersonNov 24, 1997 11:46 am 
Sean KellyNov 24, 1997 11:57 am 
Wolfram SchneiderNov 25, 1997 12:16 pm 
Annelise AndersonNov 26, 1997 2:28 pm 
Wolfram SchneiderNov 26, 1997 3:07 pm 
Annelise AndersonNov 26, 1997 5:56 pm 
Wolfram SchneiderNov 27, 1997 8:37 am 
Subject:Re: REQ: Entire FreeBSD handbook in a Archive
From:Annelise Anderson (and@andrsn.stanford.edu)
Date:Nov 26, 1997 2:28:19 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-doc

On 25 Nov 1997, Wolfram Schneider 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? Especially since the version of the complete document you can get with ftp is not up to date?

Annelise