[NTLUG:Discuss] copying web documents

[Terry Henderson]

On 5/18/06, Fred <fredstevens at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I may be trying Jay's suggestion about a Windoze prog since wget has resisted
> my puny efforts to make it work. Here's a thought: y'all try to get something
> to copy the manual at the following URL and tell me how you did it. That way we
> are on the (no pun intended) same page.
>
> http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-19-40/
>

I think you're "making a mountain out of a mole hill".

Why not just save them with your browser?  I just did, (with Firefox)
and it only took  about 3 minutes, it's only about 5 pages, (the index
page and the 4 parts), and firefox captured the related files into
subdirectories for use when viewing the material.
Here's what I have:
Index of file:///home/terry/temp/
Up to higher level directory
File: FM3-19.40 TABLE OF CONTENTS.html 	40 KB 	05/19/2006 	05:29:58 PM
Directory: FM3-19.40 TABLE OF CONTENTS_files 		05/19/2006 	05:29:58 PM
File: ch1.htm 	58 KB 	05/19/2006 	05:30:50 PM
Directory: ch1_files 		05/19/2006 	05:30:50 PM
File: ch3.htm 	68 KB 	05/19/2006 	05:31:53 PM
Directory: ch3_files 		05/19/2006 	05:31:53 PM
File: ch7.htm 	95 KB 	05/19/2006 	05:32:27 PM
Directory: ch7_files 		05/19/2006 	05:32:27 PM
File: ch9.htm 	71 KB 	05/19/2006 	05:32:45 PM
Directory: ch9_files 		05/19/2006 	05:32:45 PM

Was pretty easy,... (now I'll see how many milliseconds I can take to
delete it):
rm -rf /home/terry/temp
:)