Hi all. I just finished compiling the current version of the Blender User Guide in CHM (aka Microsoft HTMLhelp) format, even spent the time to make a nice table of contents to navigate with. The final filesize is 37.8mb. Can anyone recommend a free webhost with this much space where I could stick it for interested parties to download? I don’t have the bandwidth to do it myself, being a humble ADSL user.
For those who wonder why I’d go to the trouble:
The HTML version is 40.5mb. I know this isn’t some drastic space-savings, but it IS slightly smaller.
One large file doesn’t eat as much HD space as 990+ small files.
It’s nice to have it conveniently packaged.
Assuming I can find somewhere to host, I’ll have the Reference Guide done in a couple hours or so.
Anyhow, if anybody has a pointer to a host, or would like to host it themselves, I eagerly await a response.
I’ve used this one a couple of times (60mb allowed): http://www.savefile.com/
At least it’s something until someone offers to host it for you, as I’m sure someone will
Strictly speaking, tar-ing it won’t shrink the file, tar just collects several files into one monolithic file without compressing it. gzip or bzip2 each can only compress one file, but if you use it on a tarball then you’re essentially compressing all the files in that tarball together.
Hence .tar.gz and .tar.bz2.
I’d go into the advantages and disadvantages of this vs the more common compress-each-file-separately-and-collect method in .zip and .rar, but this is offtopic enough already…
Aargh! They haven’t fixed that yet? Now I remember why I haven’t used that site for awhile Not the best solution, but rapidshare allows for files up to 50mb: http://rapidshare.de/
why dont you contact the blender.org admins so they could upload the CHM format manual along with the ones already there in the documentation downloads…?
down loaded you file at about 15:00 GMT and it worked great for me. i 'm using XP computers behind a fire wall. the first time i got an error but i think it was my servers fault, so i just retried and it worked - tnx
Okay, I’ve recompiled both the manuals but haven’t yet figured out why the Table of Contents stuff won’t work right. These will be pretty much like just browsing them on the web, but I did compile both with full-text search information.
I have the Aug 7, 2005 html manual and I was wondering if your CHM app has some of the new features of 2.40 alpha 1 or 2 in it? I’m sure it will be great to dump my manual and grab this one if it has atleast SOME newer features in it.
dukytyme, Nokturnal: No, these are just compiled versions of the current manuals off the FTP server. Apparently these are likely to become extinct since they’re switching to the wiki for everything. In the meantime though, I’ve been using these quite a lot. Hope they’re useful to others as well.