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RUNNING SITESCOOPER ON A MAC
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<h1>
RUNNING SITESCOOPER ON A MAC
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<p>
Due to some differences in the way scripts are run, and the
implementation of MacPerl, using sitescooper under MacOS
differs quite a lot from under UNIX or Windows.
</p>
<p>
These instructions come from Andrew Fletcher <fletch /at/
computer.org>, and hopefully will be of help to Mac users
who wish to give sitescooper a go.
</p>
<p>
Under MacOS, sitescooper will not run MakeDoc automatically.
In addition, the MacOS version of MakeDoc does not support
AppleScript, so you must drag the converted text files to the
MakeDoc or iSilo converter applications by hand.
</p>
<p>
Sitescooper however will provide some commands after all the
web pages are scooped, so if you prefer to use MPW Shell to
do this, you can cut and paste the command lines directly
into the Shell.
</p>
</p>
<p>
Sitescooper requires a recent version of MacPerl; if you don't have an
up-to-date installation, you'll get warnings about <xmp>Argument
"*main::$" isn't numeric in divide</xmp>. Version 5.2.0r4 is reported to
work well.
</p>
<p>
It also requires LWP and some other Perl modules. To install these, you
need to download <a
href=ftp//ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/modules/by-module/Mac/CNANDOR/cpan-mac-0.40.sit.bin>cpan-mac-0.40.sit.bin</a>
from the CPAN perl archive. There's a readme file included; you can
either drop it on the Shuck application, as it's in POD format, or
SimpleText will do. You will need to read the <B>INSTALLATION</B>
section as installation is not obvious. The rest of the readme is
probably not relevant.
</p>
<p>
<p>
Anyway, on to Andrew's text:
</p>
<blockquote>
<h3>
Once-Off actions, on a new release of sitescooper
</h3>
<p>
(1) It has been reported that MacPerl's size should be
increased to 12,000k preferred, in order to run sitescooper.
</p>
<p>
(2) Run the MacPerl application to open sitescooper.pl and
save it as a "Droplet" called "sitescooper". Any editing of
the source for configuration purposes should be done using
the MacPerl BBEdit menu, before saving. You may additionally
need to open it up in BBEdit and "Save As" with the Macintosh
Line Breaks option, if you get a warning about \012
characters when you run it. <i>[This should be fixed in recent versions though -- jm]</i>
</p>
<p>
(3) Double-click on the "sitescooper" icon to run
"sitescooper" once. This will make the ...:sitescooper_0:txt
folder.
</p>
<p>
(4) I then make an alias to that folder, call it "Scooped
Texts" and put it on the desktop.
</p>
<h3>
Scooping
</h3>
<p>
(1) Double-click on "sitescooper".
</p>
<p>
(2) When it has finished, I exit it manually. Any messages
are shown in a window.
</p>
<p>
(3) Run the "PPP Disconnect" applescript to (you guessed it)
disconnect the PPP connection.
</p>
<p>
(4) I then open the "Scooped Texts" folder and drag 'n drop
the documents made onto MakeDoc68k, which automatically makes
the doc documents and puts them where the next Palm HotSync
will find them.
</p>
<p>
(5) I then drag 'n drop the text files to the Wastebasket.
</p>
<p>
The steps 3 and 5 could be done automatically using an
AppleScript. Unfortunately, MakeDoc68k is not AppleScriptable
so step 4 needs done manually, so I haven't scripted them as
the drag 'n dropping is trivial. If step 4 could be scripted,
then sitescooper could use MacPerl's AppleEvent package to
run an AppleScript to do steps 3-5, in lieu of the system()
call. I'll keep a look out for a different version of
MakeDoc68k which is AppleScriptable.
</p>
<p>
I actually have all the programs in a Launcher window, so
that they are buttons, this makes the double-clicking and
drag 'n dropping easy. However not all Mac Users like
Launcher -- there are many ways of doing the above steps
using other tools.
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Next: <a href=running.html>Running Sitescooper</a>
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