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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:43:44AM +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:
> The book I bought from the local supplier has arrived!!!!

It's an excellent book.

> Now to get down to some concerted study!
> 
> On a related matter, someone pointed me to a Unix/Linux
> instructional site at www.computerhope.com.
> 
> I downloaded a heap of files from that site, with the intention
> of studying them, but found the links between them were to
> absolute addresses and wouldn't work unless I was online!
> 
> So I had to write a utility to edit all the files and change
> "http://www.computerhope.com"; to read "file://." so the links
> would work while I was offline.
> 
> I'm glad I didn't even THINK of attempting it manually <GGGGGGGG>
> 
> And this is a problem that occurs more and more with "soft" study
> texts, which almost always spread over a whole bunch of files
> with absolute links between them that only work while you are
> online.

Yeh. Pain in the butt that is. The standard (non-busybox) wget
has options to deal with it.

I suppose that you wrote said utility in DOS, and am surprised to
learn that this is possible.

Should I write one in sh for BL?

It doesn't happen that often in _my_ experience, and I usually just
open the directory they are in in links and handle it that way.

Lee

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