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diff --git a/doc/USERDOC b/doc/USERDOC index 3cd2b383..9c224288 100644 --- a/doc/USERDOC +++ b/doc/USERDOC @@ -21,15 +21,19 @@ 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 using GNU Wget: +site files. An obvious way to do that is just to copy the web site +with GNU Wget: wget --recursive --relative http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ -The above copies all the HTML files from the web site into your -current directory, under a subdirectory 'netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc' -that it creates. You can browse those files directly with a web -browser. If you don't have Wget, get it from -ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget. It is very useful. +However, a somewhat cleaner way is to 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 + +This creates a directory "userguide" in your current directory containing +all the same files that are on the web site. GETTING COMMAND HELP WITH A "MAN" COMMAND |