From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a8b66084f0c2b28c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Matthew Heaney" Subject: Re: Great Tutorial for Ada95 Date: 1999/11/19 Message-ID: <38358be0_1@news1.prserv.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 550614020 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <38340958.A5103400@interact.net.au> <3834BF40.ABC33C4B@interact.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Complaints-To: abuse@prserv.net X-Trace: 19 Nov 1999 17:41:52 GMT, 129.37.62.203 Organization: Global Network Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services Mime-version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Brian Orpin 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. -- Evolution is as well documented as any phenomenon in science, as strongly as the earth's revolution around the sun rather than vice versa. Stephen Jay Gould, Time, 23 Aug 1999