Well, what he said he wanted to be able to do was "automatically retrieve
files from remote locations on a daily basis" -- if he also wants the
program to follow links automatically, the book I cited:
Web Client Programming with Perl
Clinton Wong
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc 1997
ISBN: 1-56592-214-X
covers all that too.
> These Channels can be downloaded and viewed offline.
> All related files (links, graphics, and HTML pages) will be
> downloaded.. making offline browsing the same as online.
It seems to me that the logical way to organize that at the server end
would be to put all the related files into a tar/pkzip/whatever archive
so that the client just had a single file to download, and did not
require a special "Channel function."
-- ted@psg.com http://psg.com/~ted/ (Ted Powell) "If you don't have the source code, you are probably going to be screwed in the long run." --Philip Greenspun