handbook version

[Steven Friedrich]

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 08:49 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:36:22PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 07:21 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:50:27PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > > > I noticed that the local version of the handbook is from Release 4.7
> > > > and the version on the web site is 4.10.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not trying to be critical, I'm just wondering if I'm supposed to
> > > > be performing some action to get the latest, or if 4.11 release
> > > > (which I believe will be the last 4.x) will contain the latest
> > > > version.
> > >
> > > You can download a newer version from the FTP site, or install it
> > > using the installer from the relevant release.
> > >
> > > Kris
> >
> > I can't figure this out.  I've set Options...release to "any" and to "."
> > to no avail.
>
> If you use e.g. the 4.10 installation media, you should not have to
> change any options to get the 4.10 docs.
>
> > And I logged in via ftp and perused the directory structure and
> > tried packages-4.10-release, still no joy.
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc
>
> Kris

I don't have 4.10 media, I installed from 4.7 and have been tracking -stable 
since then.  I'm currently running 4.11-prerelease.  I followed the ftp link 
in your last mail, but I see 18 files and I don't know which I need.  I've 
never heard of a .pdb...