cdburners

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Thu Feb 7 15:52:28 2002

Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
>
> > Somewhat out of question, but does anyone know of any software that would
> > download a web site, or a portion, to a local disk? IE, I would want to be
> > able to archive part of a web site onto a CDrom, without having to manually
> > save every image and web page, and manually edit the html links, etc.
>
> Throughout this thread, no one has made mention of the thing
> that makes automating thid process nearly impossible...
>
> ISO9660 CD's are limited to containing filenames of no more
> than 32 characters in length. At least, everytime I try to
> burn a CD, those web pages I've saved that have filenames
> that are longer result in a dialog box that requires me to
> either type an alternate name or accept the munged version
> that it creates itself. Doing this en masse would require
> quite a bit of attention to detail in the utility program.
>
> Comments?
>
> -dq

tar the web site!

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