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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!xmission!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!zephyr.water.ca.gov!swanee.water.ca.gov!news.ucdavis.edu!not-for-mail From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Manual - Postscript/Text version ? Date: 13 Nov 1995 06:06:42 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 23 Message-ID: <486n9i$mkt@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <816020510.21699@loddon.demon.co.uk> <48068h$8n6@mark.ucdavis.edu> <816187940.12840@loddon.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Stuart Broderick (stuart@loddon.demon.co.uk) wrote: : David, : : Thanks for the info, not quite the correct location, but close enough : for me to find them. The location is: : : ftp.cdrom.com:/.3.FreeBSD/docs Actually that's ftp.cdrom.com:/.3/FreeBSD/docs And IMHO quite a Bad Thing to use that path. The ``/.3'' is simply where Jordan? decided to mount the partition that holds FreeBSD. There is a symbolic link in /pub for all the "packages" Walnut Creak has for ftp to the mount point for that "package". Someday the sysadmin might be bored (ok, probably not), and decide to mount it on /foobar. But I'll assume would fix the link. The reason, you see ftp.cdrom.com:/.3/FreeBSD/docs is because NcFTP shows the real path rather than the "virtual" path. You often see this type of behavior on SunOS with NFS mounted volumes. You will see "/tmp_mnt" before what you thought was the path. -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)