The linux documentation project and many other sites host
a lot of good linux documentation. Problem is that it's often in
multi-page HTML format that's structured as a tree that's
both wide and deep.

Looks like the big linear files are a thing of the past...or hidden
where I can't find them.
Tree structure works great for on line viewing...but...
is there a (easy) way or place to get the
whole howto in a file that I can read off line? I don't object
to a tree structure if I don't have to download every page separately.

I'm accessing with Netscape 7.0/win98se if that matters.

Thanks, mike

mike <spamme0@juno.com> wrote:
> Looks like the big linear files are a thing of the past.

On www.tldp.org you can download .txt (text - only) versions of
all the howtos and most of documents.

Davide

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In article <c0i94u$17sq3f$1@ID-18487.news.uni-berlin.de>, Davide Bianchi wrote:
> mike <spamme0@juno.com> wrote:
>> Looks like the big linear files are a thing of the past.
>
> On www.tldp.org you can download .txt (text - only) versions of
> all the howtos and most of documents.

Another possibility is to download the whole html tree with httrack, and
have off-line copies of them on your machine.

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mike wrote:
>
> Looks like the big linear files are a thing of the past...or hidden
> where I can't find them.
> Tree structure works great for on line viewing...but...
> is there a (easy) way or place to get the
> whole howto in a file that I can read off line? I don't object
> to a tree structure if I don't have to download every page separately.

http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...s/html_single/

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David wrote:
> mike wrote:
>
>>
>> Looks like the big linear files are a thing of the past...or hidden
>> where I can't find them.
>> Tree structure works great for on line viewing...but...
>> is there a (easy) way or place to get the
>> whole howto in a file that I can read off line? I don't object
>> to a tree structure if I don't have to download every page separately.
>
>
> http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...s/html_single/
>

I feel stupid. Who knew there would be a howto on howtos...DUH :-)
mike

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In <402CA517.6090103@juno.com>, mike <spamme0@juno.com> writes:
>The linux documentation project and many other sites host
>a lot of good linux documentation. Problem is that it's often in
>multi-page HTML format that's structured as a tree that's
>both wide and deep.
>
>Looks like the big linear files are a thing of the past...or hidden
>where I can't find them.
>Tree structure works great for on line viewing...but...
>is there a (easy) way or place to get the
>whole howto in a file that I can read off line? I don't object
>to a tree structure if I don't have to download every page separately.
>
>I'm accessing with Netscape 7.0/win98se if that matters.
>
>Thanks, mike
>

Mike there is a neat book called, funnily enough, the Simply Linux Book, a quick google search will find it.
It is available online or you can download it. I found it a few weeks back. The author is very responsive.
to feedback. Have fun.

Mark
Proudly bought to you by the letters O & S & the number 2.

os2@www.com writes:

> In <402CA517.6090103@juno.com>, mike <spamme0@juno.com> writes:
>> The linux documentation project and many other sites host
>> a lot of good linux documentation. Problem is that it's often in
>> multi-page HTML format that's structured as a tree that's
>> both wide and deep.
>>
>> Looks like the big linear files are a thing of the past...or hidden
>> where I can't find them.
>> Tree structure works great for on line viewing...but...
>> is there a (easy) way or place to get the
>> whole howto in a file that I can read off line? I don't object
>> to a tree structure if I don't have to download every page separately.

The "one page html" HOWTO-s are still there.

Vilmos

Vilmos Soti wrote:
> os2@www.com writes:
>
>
>>In <402CA517.6090103@juno.com>, mike <spamme0@juno.com> writes:
>>
>>>The linux documentation project and many other sites host
>>>a lot of good linux documentation. Problem is that it's often in
>>>multi-page HTML format that's structured as a tree that's
>>>both wide and deep.
>>>
>>>Looks like the big linear files are a thing of the past...or hidden
>>>where I can't find them.
>>>Tree structure works great for on line viewing...but...
>>>is there a (easy) way or place to get the
>>>whole howto in a file that I can read off line? I don't object
>>>to a tree structure if I don't have to download every page separately.
>
>
> The "one page html" HOWTO-s are still there.

So, for that matter, are the single-file PDF versions, Postscript
versions, /and/ "ASCII text" versions, downloadable singly, or
collectively in compressed (tar/gzip or tar/bz2) format.

http://tldp.org/docs.html#howto


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Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

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os2@www.com wrote:

>In <402CA517.6090103@juno.com>, mike <spamme0@juno.com> writes:
>
>
>>The linux documentation project and many other sites host
>>a lot of good linux documentation. Problem is that it's often in
>>multi-page HTML format that's structured as a tree that's
>>both wide and deep.
>>
>>Looks like the big linear files are a thing of the past...or hidden
>>where I can't find them.
>>Tree structure works great for on line viewing...but...
>>is there a (easy) way or place to get the
>>whole howto in a file that I can read off line? I don't object
>>to a tree structure if I don't have to download every page separately.
>>
>>I'm accessing with Netscape 7.0/win98se if that matters.
>>
>>Thanks, mike
>>
>>
>>
>
>Mike there is a neat book called, funnily enough, the Simply Linux Book, a quick google search will find it.
>It is available online or you can download it. I found it a few weeks back. The author is very responsive.
>to feedback. Have fun.
>
>Mark
>Proudly bought to you by the letters O & S & the number 2.
>
>
>
Hi,

To get any documentation offline, the easyiest way is often to find the
author's website or where it was published at first
(this website might be found in the "about" section of the docs).

But sometimes there's no way to find any kind of downloadable versions ...

There's 2 solutions that come in mind :

For *nix users :
a script with wget

For Linux and M$Win* :
a tool called httrack (OSS) (beware not to behave like leech)

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Unix "Is" user-friendly,
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It's just selective about who his friends are ...
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