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author | giraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8> | 2012-03-05 18:41:00 +0000 |
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committer | giraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8> | 2012-03-05 18:41:00 +0000 |
commit | e5b924834c637e855c10eef3ce96f805b2949bad (patch) | |
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Replace Bash Ppmquantall with Perl Pnmquantall
git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/trunk@1660 9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8
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diff --git a/doc/USERDOC b/doc/USERDOC index 575f123d..e1589689 100644 --- a/doc/USERDOC +++ b/doc/USERDOC @@ -18,16 +18,12 @@ so you can use the current manual with old Netpbm code. INSTALLING A LOCAL COPY OF DOCUMENTATION ---------------------------------------- -If accessing the manual on the World Wide Web is not convenient for -you (for example, if you want to access it from a computer that is not -always connected to the Internet), just make a local copy of the web -site files. An obvious way to do that is just to copy the web site -with GNU Wget: +If accessing the manual on the World Wide Web is not convenient for you (for +example, if you want to access it from a computer that is not always connected +to the Internet), just make a local copy of the HTML files. - wget --recursive --relative http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ - -However, a somewhat cleaner way is to get the files from the -Subversion repository using the Subversion client program 'svn': +You can get the files from the Subversion repository using the Subversion +client program 'svn': URL=https://netpbm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/netpbm/userguide svn export $URL @@ -35,13 +31,20 @@ Subversion repository using the Subversion client program 'svn': This creates a directory "userguide" in your current directory containing all the same files that are on the web site. -And a sometimes more convenient way to get those files from the -Subversion repository is to get Sourceforge's Viewvc service to make a -tarball of them: +And a sometimes more convenient way to get those files from the Subversion +repository is to get Sourceforge's Viewvc service to make a tarball of them: wget http://netpbm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/netpbm/userguide.tar.gz?view=tar --output-document=/tmp/userguide.tgz +An apparent alternative is just to copy the web site with something like GNU +Wget. However, the Sourceforge web server has limitations on how much you can +download. In a February 2012 experiment, Sourceforge started refusing HTTP +requests (with an Internal Server Error indication and a message saying there +had been too many requests) before all the files could be fetched. + + + GETTING COMMAND HELP WITH A "MAN" COMMAND ----------------------------------------- |