Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 07:35 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 10:57 -0500, Paul Kraus wrote:
> > On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > >> I'd say: Use the source Luke. :-)
> > > 
> > > :)
> > > 
> > > Strange question: Is the FreeBSD handbook available as iBook?
> > 
> > 	You can get it as a PDF at
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
> > and you can then view that on your iPad. Look for the Bookshelf or
> > some such, I use an iPod Touch and while similar, they are not
> > identical to the iPad.
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/de/books/handbook/book.pdf.bz2
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.pdf.bz2
> 
> iBookshelf Lite 2.12.4 has got a file sharing option, so I added the
> above extracted archives by renamed PDFs (FreeBSD Handbook de.pdf,
> FreeBSD Handbook en.pdf), but after sync they still are not available.
> 
> I renamed the files (bsdde.pdf, bsden.pdf), added them and synced again,
> but they are still not available.
> 
> The PDFs can be opened by Linux. VBox, resp. iTunes has got access to
> the files and sync between VBox and the iPad does work for other data.
> 
> However, it's OT for this list.
> 
> Anyway, thank you :)
> Ralf

PS:

I installed two other gratis apps.

Offline Reader ! 2.0 and PDF Reader Lite 1.2.3, the first app seems to
be useless and when I downloaded it, I was asked if I'm >= 17 years
old :D, but the second app does receive and display the handbooks named
bsdde.pdf, bsden.pdf :)

Regards,
Ralf