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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 14 Feb 2010 14:23 : \____
> Nigel Feltham pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Wikipedia squeezed onto a single CD
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | A South American group has managed to
>>> | shrink virtually the full content of
>>> | Wikipedia onto a CD which can be read with
>>> | on-the-fly compression.
>>> |
>>> | The Argentinian Python users' group, PyAr,
>>> | aims to distribute the CDPedia CD to remote
>>> | schools which lack connectivity.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/48241-wikipedia-squeezed-onto-a-
>> single-cd
>>
>> Great news, just a shame it's the SPANISH edition.
>
> I wonder if you could do a recursive wget on it? :-)
No compression and lots of spurious headers... just download the CD/s. I wonder, does
Wikipedia have a download site for the DB/s?
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