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nolce

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 26 March 1998
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NAME

nolce - allow off-line Netscape Navigator cache browsing

USAGE

nolce[n_hours] [-c cache_dir] [-d dest_dir] [-g|-G sub_string] [-i summary_file] [-w|-W] [-s] [-m] [-t] [-f] [-l] [-k] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

Nolce copies Netscape Navigator (ver. 2 and above) cache files in a new directory, adjusting file names and links to permit an off-line navigation of them.

OPTIONS

n_hours: Process only files created, that is downloaded, in the last n_hours hours.If this option isn't given, nolce processes all the files of the cache.
-c cache_dir: Process cache files under the cache_dir directory. Default is$HOME/.netscape/cache.
-d dest_dir: Store processed files under dest_dir. Default is $HOME/cached.
-g sub_string: Process only HTML files whose URL contains the specified sub_string
-G sub_string: Process only HTML files whose URL doesn't contain the specified sub_string
-i summary_file: Put summary about documents retrieved in the html file summary_file. It willcontain titles of documents, and links both to local copy and tooriginal site of them. Even if it's given an absolute path, the file willbe always created in dest_dir. Default isindex.html.If summary file exists, it is not overwritten, but new entries are appended to it.
-w, -W: By default, retrieved pages are displayed in another window. With-wthe same index window is used, while with-Wthey are displayed in the list frame.
-s: Programs executes silently.
-m: By default, missing images are totally eliminated from the HTML file, so one doesn't see the Netscape icon indicating them. With this option, missingimages are kept.
-t: Put downloading date of each document in summary file.
-f: Don't process links not satisfying initial conditions.When one of the options n_hours,-gor -Gis given, if a document has a link to another one which doesn't satisfy those conditions, the link is processed also, unless the -f option isgiven. However, even when processed, these links doesn't appear in the summaryfile.
-l: Ignore lock file. With this option, the cache is processed even if there is a lock file in $HOME/.netscape . It's useful when the cache specified with-cisn't the one the Netscape in execution uses, or when Netscape isn't installed. Use with care, and don't launch more copies of nolce on the same directory.
-k: Make symbolic links for images and other non html files. This permits to reduce disk usage, but pages depend from files in the Netscape's cache, which sooner or later are deleted by the browser.
--help: Shows help message and exit.

OVERVIEW

Netscape normally stores all types of downloaded documents (html files, images and soon) under the directory $HOME/.netscape/cache, but it changes their names andtheir relative position, so it isn't possible to browse them off-line.

Nolce basically does three things: copies cached files in a new directory structure which reflects the original site structure, restores their original file names, and adjusts links in html files to point to local files rather thanto Internet ones. The original Netscape cache is left intact.After running the program, user should open the summaryfile in Netscape Navigator, and from it view desired documents.Alternatively one can explore the directories and files created underdest_dir.

When viewing processed documents, links in italics refer to local documents,while normal links to Internet ones.

For further informations see the next section.

FILES

This software comes with a LICENCE file and a README file in the HTML format.Refer to them for further informations, especially to the section `HOW IT WORKS' for knowing how the program acts and what it does and doesn't.

AUTHOR

Giuseppe Trovato (g.trovatoAATTusa.net)

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