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I have been trying all afternoon to make local copies of web pages from a |
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netscape bookmark file. I have been wrestling with httrack (through |
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khttrack), pavuk and wget, but none of them work. httrack and pavuk seem to |
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claim they can do the job, but they can't, or at least not in any way an |
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ordinary mortal could be expected to work out. They do things like pretending |
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to download hundreds of files without actually saving them to disk, crashing |
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suddenly and frequently, and popping up messages saying that I haven't |
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contributed enough code to their project to expect the thing to work |
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properly. I don't want to do anything hideously complicated. I just want to |
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make local copies of some bookmarked pages. What tools should I be using? |
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I would be happy to use a windows tool in wine if it worked. I would be happy |
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to reboot into Windows if I could get this job done. |
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One option would be to feed wget a list of urls. The trouble is I don't know |
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how to turn an html bookmark file into a simple list of urls. I imagine I |
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could do it in sed if I spent enough time to learn sed, but my afternoon has |
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gone now and I don't have the time. |
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Many thanks |
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Robert |
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Robert Persson |
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"Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." |
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(US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) |
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