Rutebook and a lot more

[Rashkae]

NoOp wrote:
> On 08/28/2008 01:31 PM, Young wrote:
>> Doug Pollard wrote:
>>> If that is a doable thing I would think it an excellent solution if it 
>>> could be incorporated in.
>>>                                                     Doug
>>>
>>>
>>> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>>> Doug Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net>  said:
>>>>   
>>>>> He should be able to click applications Rutebook 
>>>>> and that followed by all the other categories of applications.
>>>>>     
>>>> The problem here is that rutebook is not an application but a series of
>>>> HTML documents.  Perhaps a ready-made bookmark with a desktop link that
>>>> opens rutebook in your browser would work as well?
>>>>
>>>> Cybe R. Wizard
>>>>   
>>>
>> I choose to use the PDF version. It seemed that the PDF search would be 
>> easier than an HTML search. Is that not the case?
>>
> 
> There was a thread about a month or two ago on this very subject
> (Rutebook) & how to view etc.
> 
> What I did was create a PDF from the html files setting the url links as
> bookmarks. That way you can easily see each chapter etc., by scrolling
> through the bookmarks (26. TCP and UDP, 27. DNS and Name Resolution,
> etc).  I then just click on the pdf bookmark and it takes me directly to
> that page in the pdf.
> 
> Unfortunately, the only way that I figured out how to do that was by
> using Adobe Acrobat to generate the pdf w/bookmarks. I'll not release my
> pdf as Rutebook is copyrighted:
> 
> ====
> About this document ...
> This document was generated using the LaTeX2HTML translator Version
> 99.2beta8 (1.46)
> Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, Nikos Drakos, Computer Based
> Learning Unit, University of
> Leeds.
> Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, Ross Moore, Mathematics Department,
> Macquarie University, Sydney.
> The command line arguments were:
> latex2html -split +1 -notransparent -antialias -white -local_icons rute.
> tex
> ====
> 
> I reckon that one could contact the authors and see if they could
> release the pdf w/bookmarks. Then again, why not help out the author(s)
> and just buy the book:
> <http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0130333514/ref=sr_1_olp_1/103-7413444-2691062?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219960912&sr=1-1>
> 
> Note that Rutebook is a little dated (still very useful however).
> 
> 


Of course it's copyrighted.. everything is automatically copyrighted,
including my words here, the moment I send it.

What's important is the terms granted by the author, the relevant ones
here (though you should read the entire copyright file, located in your
/usr/share/doc/rutebook folder)

2. The work may not be modified except by a generic format translation
utility, as may be appropriate for viewing the work using an alternative
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