GMT online documentation has disappeared

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Hi,

Some time in the last hour or two all the online documentation for GMT has disappeared. I know I should have downloaded it locally for my reference, but the online site is so convenient.

For example, I get a 404 error for this:

https://docs.generic-mapping-tools.org/dev/grdproject.html

Cheers,

Tim

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Yes, I too seem to can not find online documentation, and I needed to refer to it on an urgent basis.
Hope it comes online soon…

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Yeah. The one day in the last year when I really needed it was today. But there’s some law that says that’s how things go isn’t there?

Still: gmt command --help (e.g. gmt grdproject --help) works, but not as well as the web pages in my opinion.

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If you have the source you can build the docs yourself. But agree, very inconvenient. Doesn’t happen often though.

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Opened issue #7338 on GitHub.

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Thanks to @seisman the documentation is back online.

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It’s nice that this problem was noticed so fast - people must be using the docs.

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I used to keep a binder full of GMT man pages (last printed in 2015). I use the on-line docs ALL the time, now. I feel very green not wasting paper, anymore.

I still have the binder, because it is filled with tons of notes on how to do things.

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