[ncl-talk] A downloadable complete NCL reference, dictionary, manual... mirror ncl-website-documentation offline?

Appo derbetini appopson4 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 12:03:18 MST 2015


I used

*httrack  www.ncl.ucar.edu <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu>*

to do it


2015-12-02 16:42 GMT+01:00 Erik J. Schaffernicht <eschaffe at uni-koeln.de>:

> Using   wget -r -p -k   is good for mirroring, but being offline, I loose
> the search-expression-ability, don't I?
> Because it seems     ncl.ucar.de  search box   uses online-google-search
> to find the best answer, when I only know some vague keywords of what I
> like to learn/code.
>
> ( @Robert:  Thanks for pointing me to wget  )
>
> Any good idea/syntax on how to perform a convenient search being offline?
>   i.e. only having access to the mirrored website that is stored in a
> local folder on my unix system?
>
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> On 30.11.2015 09:23, Robert Redl wrote:
>
> Hi Erik,
>
> you can use wget to create a mirror of the web page:
> wget -r -p -k http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/
>
> Robert
>
> Am 30.11.2015 um 02:39 schrieb Erik J. Schaffernicht <
> eschaffe at uni-koeln.de>:
>
> I use NCL a lot when I am offline and can't get internet access due to
> various reasons.
>
> Is there a  document/package/website-ensemble/pdf     that contains all
> NCL-resources- and all NCL-functions-description from a to z
>  that I can download and use as a local offline look-up table, help,
> complete documentation?
>
> I don't mean that someone should write another subjectively composed
> NCL-manual (there are some  here
> <https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/>
> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/)
> but more a kind of mirror of the look-up structure that is offered online
>   https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/*
>   https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/*
> Absolute completeness of all NCL-commands and NCL-functions in a easy to
> search and access way, offline.
>
> I don't care much about its size, even if it takes up 1 GB or more, I
> would be happy to download it to have it offline with a good offline search
> function (eg. to lookup the syntax of a function like where(..) or learn
> about available some contour-resources)
>
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