Mosaic had a function to do what you are suggesting.  I saw an rpm for
mosaic o one of the sites...  haven't tried it on linux yet tho.
brian ;)
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At 11:27 AM 4/22/00 +1200, you wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote regarding Re: downloading web sites:
>
>> 
>> You have to be joking.  A properly written website will cause all kinds of
>> trouble trying to view offline.  Let's see, for starters you won't have any
>> of the images.  Even if you did download all of them, it still might not work
>> as the pages may be written to access the web site with absolute links, vs.
>> relative links.  Then there is the problem is dynamically built web sites.
>> 
>Well, I think you just answered my question -- below :-)
>
>> You might be able to get away with it downloading my web site, because I
>> have it built for speed, minimal graphics so that the user can get what they
>> are after quickly.  There are many others that I have visited that will not
>> work very well at all offline.
>> 
>> I shudder at the thought of attempting to do what you are wanting to do.
>> 
>
>On the contrary, at this time most sites are HTML based and not XML. The ones I
>am interested in not likely to be the kind of dynamically driven sites you are
>referring to, and anyway if that is the case I have another method of
>extracting that info (which is unfortunately not available on my Linux box and
>so I am using a friend who uses Windows) -- I just want this because it is
>preferrable to that other method.
>
>Cheers
>Alan
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