On 2016-11-06, Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Miles (and also Dan P and Celejar for other solutions). > > Indeed Firefox has an archive format (maybe called 'maff'?), but how > could you mail it to yourself? > > That is, how could you mail the maff without taking your hands off the > keyboard, or switching apps or something like that?
I used to use a plugin called "Send to Kindle" that worked (for the Kindle), but then it stopped working for reasons that escaped me (an ill-designed and maintained Amazon thingie). > Ideally, the way it would work is you find a blog post or something > that you like, then you go to a drop-down menu, and select 'mail this > to me'. Are there any plugins that are so savvy? I wonder if you could use a plugin like the one below and just send the file to yourself, at which point you might read it with fbreader or some such. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kindle-it/ > TIA for any info, and thanks again Dan P and Celejar. > > dan > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Miles Fidelman ><mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: >> On 11/5/16 6:01 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: >> >>> Does anybody know of a piece of software that you can give an URL to, >>> and it will then fetch the url and email the contents to you? >>> >>> This could be a stand-alone app on the desktop, or a plug-in to a >>> browser, or a web site, or some combo. (I guess it could be a >>> pipeline of curl and some mail program, but i'm afraid i'd just get >>> piles of incomprehensible text.) >>> >>> >> Well you might try: >> >> curl http://www.foo.com | uuencode page.html | mail myn...@mydomain.com >> or >> ( echo "Content-Type: text/html"; curl http://www.foo.com) | sendmail >> myn...@mydomain.com >> >> Now, if you want all the components of a page - like embedded images and >> such, or an entire site - then you might explore some of curl's options for >> downloading a site, pipe that through zip, and email the archive. >> >> Or... most browsers will do this for you! >> >> -- >> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. >> In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra >> > > -- “It is enough that the arrows fit exactly in the wounds that they have made.” Franz Kafka
