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General Software Discussion / Re: How to make a local copy of an ancient Web forum?

« on: November 19, 2008, 11:46 AM »

Do i understand correctly that you do not have access to the backend database? ie you just have normal forum member rights to view posts?

-mouser (November 19, 2008, 11:38 AM)

I have the same rights to that L&H forum e.g. as you, or as everyone else reading the present thread.

Probably it would need some sort of "intelligent" crawler that only downloads links up to a certain depth (like about depth "2" or something) while neglecting other links (like especially those "Collapse" and "Expand" links).

Cheers David.P

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General Software Discussion / How to make a local copy of an ancient Web forum?

« on: November 19, 2008, 11:27 AM »

Hi Forum,

there is this stone-age Web forum by the L&H company that has ceased to exist already like a decade ago:

http://support.lhsl..../dragon/webdisc.nsf/

It is still operative but it is to be feared that the current site owner is simply going to shut the forum down pretty soon as he has done with other similar forums.

Therefore it would be great to find a way how to make a local copy of all that forum's threads in some way.

I have already tried Adobe Acrobat  and WebsitePacker (this is great, makes *.CHM files out of an entire site).

However both take ages and download literally Gigabytes of stuff because these tools are too stupid not to click on each and every link (especially the "Collapse" and "Expand" links next to every thread ). Therefore, every single posting sort of gets downloaded like a dozen times instead only once, and it would take days, create hundreds of thousands of files and use up dozens of Gigabytes to download everything.

Any more ideas how I could actually rip that entire forum to one compact file or directory structure?

Thanks heaps already,
David.P

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General Software Discussion / Re: Compare text files and keep only the DIFFERENT lines?

« on: November 19, 2008, 11:15 AM »

Thanks everyone for the great help and suggestions!

Cheers David.P

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General Software Discussion / Re: Compare text files and keep only the DIFFERENT lines?

« on: November 19, 2008, 12:43 AM »

Yeah thanks -- but how am I supposed to do that in Winmerge? Have looked around all menus and options but can't seem to find a "select" or "keep only different lines" option.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Compare text files and keep only the DIFFERENT lines?

« on: November 13, 2008, 04:29 AM »

Thanks! Sounds as if this is the right thing for me -- only a little drawback for users like me that are spoiled by mouse and blinkenlights --> seems as if there is no GUI.

But thank you very much for the tip!

Cheers David.P

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General Software Discussion / Re: Compare text files and keep only the DIFFERENT lines?

« on: November 13, 2008, 02:00 AM »

Thanks guys,

however I'm not good enough at such coding I'm afraid...

I tried Winmerge but could not find a way to do it there.

Thanks,
David.P

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any good free OCR software?

« on: November 12, 2008, 03:04 PM »

Once I installed a trial of Microsoft Office 2003 (or was it 2007?). Anyway, when I had to uninstall it, somehow I managed to keep the "Microsoft Office Document Imaging" tool.

BTW, everyone who owns any part of Microsoft Office has this tool on his PC.

This is a marvelous OCR software. Incredibly fast and VERY accurate (powered by Scansoft).

Hth,
David.P

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General Software Discussion / Compare text files and keep only the DIFFERENT lines?

« on: November 12, 2008, 03:00 PM »

Hi forum,

there's a lot of possibilities to compare text files and keep only the matching lines of both files (you can even do that in MS Word).

However, if I had two text files and wanted to extract the lines that are different in the two files -- how would I go about to do that....?

Thanks heaps already,

Cheers David.P