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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