On 06 Apr 2005 10:59:07 -0400
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On 2005-04-06 11:14, Don Kuzenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a number of machines running FreeBSD and I would like to
> > > create a local mirror of the documentation available on the
> > > FreeBSD website. My problem is that I currently have a dial up
> > > connection (rural living :-)
> > >
> > > Is there a simple way to obtain a tarball of a mirror of the docs
> > > so that I can access the docs via a browser on my machine.
> > 
> > If you only need HTML docs, I can build you a snapshot with a couple
> > of formats, like FORMATS="html html-split", and upload it somewhere
> > where you can grab it at your leisure.
> > 
> > If you prefer copying the files yourself, you can recursively
> > retrieve a copy of /pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1 from one of the
> > FTP mirrors.
> 
> I think the "data" cvsup collection might serve the purpose nicely
> too.

if the modem is a 2400bps then it might also be good to look at
/usr/share/doc, as e.g. the handbook is there ;-)

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