OT - Scheduling/Macro Software

From: Brian Chase <bdc_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon Jun 11 17:42:00 2001

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Marvin wrote:

> I would like to be able to schedule a web browser to go to a site,
> capture the page, and save it to a file automatically once an hour.
> Off hand, I don't of anything that will do this; any ideas? Thanks.

On which operating system would you want to do this? Under UNIX it's
fairly trivial. You can setup a simple cron job to this using either the
text based web browser "lynx" or the infinitely useful tool "mget".

If you're running one of the Linux distributions, FreeBSD, NetBSD, or
OpenBSD, they will include "lynx" and "mget" as installable packages.
On other UNIX systems you'll have to download their source and compile
them.

-brian.
Received on Mon Jun 11 2001 - 17:42:00 BST