On Feb 5, 12:22, Lawrence LeMay wrote: be manually wget on a unix or Linux system. You'd want to pick your root point and start wget with the -r (--recursive) and -k (or --convert-links) options (to make any absolute links into relative ones, wherever possible) and the -np (or --no-parent) so it doesn't follow links that go *up* the directory tree rather than down (a good way to get lots more than you intended!). There's also a -m (--mirror) option. You can refine things with other options (such as those to avoid certain files or types, useful to exclude those extra ?D=A indexes from directory listings) but I usually start with -r -k -np. On a Windows system? Telnet to a Unix machine. There is a Windows port, but I'm not sure how good it is. wget can limit the total size of a download by setting a quota, but it's not as useful as you might think. Better for you to decide yourself where to split a collection over two or more CDs. Of course some sites make this easy (like PUPS/TUHS, for which I run one of the official mirrors). Another polite option is --wait, which waits between fetches to reduce the bandwidth. Some sites might not like you hogging their connection. In fact, recently I came across another site that had banned certain addresses altogether for attempting to download a whole site without asking first. The owner took the view that no-one could possibly want the whole site, unless for a mirror, in which case it's best to ask. Some sites have a megabytes-per-month limit imposed by their ISP, so again, ask. There are also programs for FTP (only) mirroring: the imaginatively-named 'mirror' and 'ftpmirror' come to mind, and pavuk too, but wget is a pretty good all-rounder. http://www.wget.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/ http://noc.intec.co.jp/ftpmirror.html http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/ -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York