well, I couldn't agree more about wget. it's my favorite for downloading everything.
the only advantage of getleft over wget is that it easily and quickly lets you choose
which other files (pictures, zip files, etc...) that linked in this page you want to
download.
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:21:43AM -0500, D. Stark - eSN wrote:
> Let's not forget wget.
>
> I imagine getleft is a lot like it, but wget comes with most every distro
> that has come out in the last few years. It can do complete mirrors of
> remote pages, but be warned that pages with javascipt to open new pages will
> fail. Unless Getleft is superhuman, it might not fair any better. But I've
> never used that one.
>
> wget is really handy to d/l hard-to-get links, because it has infinite
> re-try and timeout capabilities. Works well on ftp as well, and has a tiny
> memory and cpu footprint. the glory of the command line!
>
> Derek Stark
> IT / Linux Admin
> eSupportNow
> xt 8952
>
> PS: The list is MUCH faster lately.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Haim Ashkenazi
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web
>
>
> Hi
>
> I mainly use 2 tools for this. search freshmeat.net for 'Getleft' and
> 'htmldoc'. the first can download a whole web page including pictures and
> the second can convert them to postscript or pdf (both from hard disk or
> directly from the web).
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:11:19PM -0800, Homer Shimpsian wrote:
> >
> > I know I can't be the first person to want for this. I've been searching
> > since the web was created.
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to d/l and concatenate all the different web
> pages
> > in an online manual to enable one to print the sucker?
> >
> >
> > like this site:
> > http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/
> >
> >
> > I imagine the difficulty in programming such a thing is when there are
> links
> > on the page that are not part of the manual. A TSR that allowed U to
> > highlight the relevent links wound't be to impossible, right?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Have Fun
> --
> Haim
>
>
--
Haim
