Re: LYNX-DEV Since Lynx won't, what will?

[Scott McGee (Personal)]

Jim Dennis describes his script for doing a mirror type function with Lynx
and -crawl, etc., in response to my message last week wanting a program to
do something similar.

Jim, I agree that it just doesn't make sense to add this kind of functionality
to Lynx when there are already tools out there that do such things, and do them
quite well. (After all, we don't want Lynx to have everything, including the
kitchen sink, like emacs has done!)

Go to one of the GNU sites and get a copy of wget. It is an excellent program,
has lots of options to tailor your usage to exactly what you want to do, and
works very well for mirroring a site or a portion thereof. You CAN tell it to
fetch just particular types of files, or not to fetch certain types. You can
tell it to traverse to a limited depth or recurse all the way. You can tell it
not to follow links to parent directories, to ignore certain directory or file
name patterns, and much more. 

Scott

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