[sdiy] archiving info

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 29 June 2007 16:44, Scott wrote:
> I'm sort of embarrassed for not knowing the answer to this already, but
> is there some sort of easy web archiving software out there?  Something
> where you can tell it to archive someone's entire website?  There are a
> lot of good sites people have put up w/ schematics, instructions, etc,
> and it would be nice if there were a tool that could get the whole thing
> for you.

Under linux I just use "wget".  It has *lots* of command-line options,  and 
will grab a whole big site recursively,  if that's what you want it to do.  I 
remember reading where one guy had done that for wikipedia,  though he 
apparently has way more drive space than I do.  :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Scott
> Gravenhorst
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 2:50 PM
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] message board
>
> Last, but certainly not least, I agree with the person who mentioned
> being able to easily generate a personalized archive of specific posts
> of interest.  If you've ever touched an interesting website and simply
> bookmarked it only to find that months later the site is *gone*, you'll
> understand why people like me archive information on local hard drives.
>  There's nothing more annoying than knowing something is out there and
> being unable to access it.  Now, I keep local copies of EVERYTHING I
> use.  When I need it, it's there.

Yeah,  firefox has this nifty option to save a whole web page,  not just the 
HTML but all associated image and stylesheet and other files,  which tends to 
make things get a little cluttered,  but it works well for me for the most 
part.

> Long live plain text messages.

Yup!

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