Re: LYNX-DEV Downloading a whole web site for local offline browsing

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Dave Eaton wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, David Combs wrote:
> > Rather than telling everyone to go download that three-lettered
> > program (no, four: wget), and LEARN the darn thing, why not
> > simply add some of these features to LYNX?
> Proceed with caution here ... you not only need a way to download
> recursively, you also need a way to define how to limit that download so
> you don't try to get the whole web by asking for one file "and all its
> links". That's a new set of parameters and logic lynx doesn't have already
> ... and ones which will make it just that much larger.
> 
> Although it means "learning something new", using an existing tool that
> does just what is wanted may be better than inventing all over again.

Not that much to learn, either:
wget (-r | --recursive)

Plus, fairly intuitive options for limiting depth.  Further, it's small,
tested, supported, free, etc.  Finally, it maintains file timestamps,
can mirror based on timestamps, can restart FTP transfers, is available
for Win32, and on and on. 

WRTW (why reinvent the wheel)?

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