lynx for mirroring? (Re: Advertisements on Web Pages)

At 10:41 PM 8/7/01 -0500, measl@mfn.org wrote:
(I'm surprised no one has urged me to use Lynx. Is it still being
used?)
For very limited values of "used", yes.
Declan once gave a lynx command line that would download a website (recursing) less the images, of course. I found it didn't preserve file names or directory hierarchy, so it was less useful for mirroring sites I anticipated being oppressed. Can anyone recommend a better tool? For wintel?

,----[ On Wed, Aug 08, at 12:41PM, Subcommander Bob wrote: ]-------------- | Can anyone recommend a better tool? | For wintel? `----[ End Quote ]--------------------------- It isnt for wintel proper, but you can run wget under cygwin (cygwin.com) and use wget -m which will give you a full mirror and if you run it in any kind of timely interval, will even update the differences for you to keep your mirror up to date. cygwin is very nifty too, a (semi)full unix enviroment under windows. command line anyway. hope it helps. --gabe -- "It's not brave, if you're not scared."

Subcommander Bob <bob@black.org> wrote:
Declan once gave a lynx command line that would download a website (recursing) less the images, of course. I found it didn't preserve file names or directory hierarchy, so it was less useful for mirroring sites I anticipated being oppressed. Can anyone recommend a better tool? For wintel?
wget does this very well. I'm sure you can build it under Cygwin. -- Riad Wahby rsw@mit.edu MIT VI-2/A 2002

On 8 Aug 2001, at 12:41, Subcommander Bob wrote:
Declan once gave a lynx command line that would download a website (recursing) less the images, of course. I found it didn't preserve file names or directory hierarchy, so it was less useful for mirroring sites I anticipated being oppressed. Can anyone recommend a better tool? For wintel?
I use something called wget that I go from gnu for this. It just comes as source, although you could probably find a compiled version somewhere. I could email the .exe as an attachment if you want. George

On 8 Aug 2001, at 12:41, Subcommander Bob wrote:
Declan once gave a lynx command line that would download a website (recursing) less the images, of course. I found it didn't preserve file names or directory hierarchy, so it was less useful for mirroring sites I anticipated being oppressed. Can anyone recommend a better tool? For wintel?
If you have Perl on your Wintel box, try w3mir. I use it at home and at work. Works great for me! -- Roy M. Silvernail Proprietor, scytale.com roy@scytale.com
participants (5)
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Gabriel Rocha
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georgemw@speakeasy.net
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Riad S. Wahby
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Roy M. Silvernail
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Subcommander Bob