On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, MJ Ray wrote:
> Well, from what I remember of sitescooper, wouldn't it require yet
> another interpreter?
It needs perl. It leverages off plucker code to generate the DB -
though historically plucker had a perl transcoder too.
> Has it been ported to Windows yet?
I have not tried it, but the web page says :-
HTTP and local files, using the file:/// protocol, are both
supported, and it works fine on most UNIX platforms, Windows 95, 98
and NT, and Macs.
> Maybe it is better to split the plucker-build into -fetch and -convert
> instead, though?
-fetch is wget, sitescooper, any number of others.
-convert we do need. The intermediate form should be a file (files ?)
with links relativised.
Cheers, Andy!
