mish
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Post by mish on Nov 8, 2009 0:14:51 GMT -5
Just finished playing around with downloading whole books (complete with images, charts, maps, etc) via wget. Here's how I did it. Operating system is Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger: - Download and install Fink from http://www.finkproject.org; - Open up a Terminal window; - Install wget via sudo apt-get install wget (you need an Admin account to do this); - Download the whole book via wget -r --no-parent <url of book here>eg: to get Morton's Fall of the Philippines: wget -r --no-parent www.ibiblio.net/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/(the -r switch tells wget to recursively get the files; the --no-parent option tells it not to get other directories living within the same parent directory as the target) For 10.5.x Leopard and later users:www.statusq.org/archives/2008/07/30/1954/For UNIX-like operating system users (*BSD, Solaris, Linux, etc); you have less hoops to go through: - install wget via a package (easier) or compile it from source (longer, CPU-intensive) - run wget -r --no-parent <target> from the console or a terminal window For Windows users:gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htmHave fun. For those who've successfully used other methods (I'm sure there are lots of other ways out there), please share. Edit: Fixed commands
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Post by VeeVee on Nov 9, 2009 8:15:34 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip.
A slower way but maybe simpler for those with Acrobat is to print the pages in PDF. Separate pages could also be collected into one document.
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