Re: Great Tutorial for Ada95

["Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>]

In article <bxY1ODjQyyYmikiGQBZkH6kY4m7o@4ax.com> , Brian Orpin 
<abuse@borpin.co.uk>  wrote:

>> Oh yes... and if you notice the way the html source has been written with
>> absolute URL's - they aredetermined to keep people from just downloading it
>> all as a local file system (as I prefer it).  I contacted the author through
>> the website and he said it is done like that because the publisher of the
>> paper copy wants it that way.  Copyrights and legals hassles.
>
> I find this so petty but nothing a quick webcrawl and perl script cannot
> solve.  Alternatively use a local proxy with a crawler attached.

I just had the same experience when I recently wacked a website (using
Anarchie).  On a Mac, you can use BBEdit to find all the absolute
addresses in all the files (say, the TEXT files that end with ".html"),
and replace them with relative addresses.  Problem solved.




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