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["Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:35:42 +0000, Lee Forrest wrote:

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

>> It does?

> -k
>   --convert-links
>       After the download is complete, convert the links in
>       the document to make them suitable for local viewing.
>       This affects not only the visible hyperlinks, but any
>       part of the document that links to external content,
>       such as embedded images, links to style sheets, hyper
>       links to non-HTML content, etc.

Well, I'll be hornswaggled! So it does. I'd forgotten that.

The trouble is that I use wget so rarely (other than in calls
from batch files) that I tend to forget some of the functions,
and the doc file is 164k long, plain text, which takes a while to
go through.

> I was referring to local docs. If they are all in the same
> directory you just open that directory in links. All the files
> are displayed in a menu that you can return to with the history
> command (Alt-F-h) or just LeftArrow.

Ah, yes. I understand that now.

> It's not as good as your solution, but it works.

And my solution wasn't anywhere near as simple as using '-k' in
wget <GGGGG>

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