HOWTOs?

Ben Stringer ben at burbong.com
Thu Jul 8 07:10:38 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 17:05, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> Older versions of Redhat used to contain many of the available HOWTO
> documents in /usr/doc/HOWTO. Fedora Core 2 doesn't seem to provide these

Hi Bruno,

Which older versions of RedHat? That directory does not seem to be
present on Redhat 9 or 7.3. In fact, /usr/doc did not exist on either of
these releases either.

> files anywhere. Can anyone tell me the reason for this (or where I might
> find the documentation installed if I missed it)? While these files are
> available on the net, it is nice to have a local copy in the case of
> problems and I want to save myself having to download (some of) them over
> a slow connection.

Perhaps this was because HOWTOs can very quickly go out of date.

Cheers, Ben





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