by YarpsDat on Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:06 am
At the moment the zip (well, actually a .rar file) is bigger than 3MB.
I'll try to figure a way to shrink it...
I know for a fact that it shouldn't be that big, because there were 177 pages, 20 posts/page, and hardly ever the post would be bigger than 1000 letters (especially in dnr), that means it should be 3,5MB UNcompressed.
Meanwhile, all the obsolete html in the files bloats them, so it's 25MB uncompressed (just html).
There are headers and footers that make up 90% of the files, I'll try to code something to remove them.
BTW, how to save a thread?
In short threads using save-as on all pages is ok.
In longer 7-10 pages I find it's better to "right-click-save-as" because othervise you end up saving all the icons a number of times and that's actually wasting space.
In special cases like DNR I fint it's easiest to create a file with links to all the pages
ie:
<a href="http://forums.keenspace.com/viewtopic.php?t=666&start=0">1</a>
<a href="http://forums.keenspace.com/viewtopic.php?t=666&start=20">2</a>
<a href="http://forums.keenspace.com/viewtopic.php?t=666&start=40">3</a>
.
.
.
(the file can be generated with a simple script, or made with copy-paste and a bit of editing)
And then right-click-save-as all of them. Yes, that required 177 mouseclicks, and about a thousand keyboard strokes, but it took under 15 minutes.
Of course using a webspider is an option to.
Once I shrink the zip to reasonable size, or give up on doing it I'll redistribute it to the needing.