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
Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web
On Thursday 25 January 2001 07:11 pm, 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? I've just used konqueror with a split window to drag, drop and copy each page on other on-line manuals. I just started with yours, created a new folder called linux_guide and just started copying each link into it when I got to the one that says: "Download everything". You can actually copy that page also or open it and follow the instructions to download the entire manual in different formats. If you continue to copy each link into the folder then that folder can be opened with a browser and used just like the original. If you're online and the folder recognizes a url it will go to it. However if it can't recognize the url (say it was a url on the original host) it can't go to it. I haven't had that happen to me yet. Also graphics are left out of the finished manual this way - I've tried to get the graphics separately but haven't figured a way yet. Let me know if you find a way. Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RE: [expert] d/ling docs from the web
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
RE: [expert] d/ling docs from the web
Yeah.. I saw that d/l everything as well. You don't always have the luxury. So, you're basically cutting and pasting? I'm thinking of something like one of those web cache programs where U can point to a site and set how many levels (link) deep U want to go and it will d/l everything for offline browsing. Thinking about it, I guess that will suit my purposes of offline browsing, and while it would be nice to have one html for various reasons like transfering, I suppose I could just zip the whole shabang. (it's going to create a folder for each of those chapters) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelley Terry Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:16 PM To: Homer Shimpsian; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web On Thursday 25 January 2001 07:11 pm, 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? I've just used konqueror with a split window to drag, drop and copy each page on other on-line manuals. I just started with yours, created a new folder called linux_guide and just started copying each link into it when I got to the one that says: "Download everything". You can actually copy that page also or open it and follow the instructions to download the entire manual in different formats. If you continue to copy each link into the folder then that folder can be opened with a browser and used just like the original. If you're online and the folder recognizes a url it will go to it. However if it can't recognize the url (say it was a url on the original host) it can't go to it. I haven't had that happen to me yet. Also graphics are left out of the finished manual this way - I've tried to get the graphics separately but haven't figured a way yet. Let me know if you find a way. Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web
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
