These directories contain the documents themselves. The documentation is split into up to three more categories at this level, indicated by the different directory names.
articles
article
(or equivalent). Reasonably short, and broken up into sections.
Normally only available as one HTML file.books
book
(or
equivalent). Book length, and broken up into chapters. Normally
available as both one large HTML file (for people with fast
connections, or who want to print it easily from a browser) and
as a collection of linked, smaller files.man
mann
directories,
corresponding to the sections that have been translated.Not every
lang.encoding
directory will contain all of these directories. It depends
on how much translation has been accomplished by that translation
team.
All FreeBSD documents are available for download at http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
Questions that are not answered by the
documentation may be
sent to <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>.
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