Online car manuals!

[marc at getty.net (Marc Getty)]

Toby,

Wow! Now that you have all these downloaded, any way you can make
these available to the rest of us? Perhaps tar'ing them all together
and posting them for download?

-Marc

'81 "Gorgeous" Cedar Green Metallic Mk1 Scirocco - No Pictures to date
'87 Tornado Red 16v Bogged Scirocco http://getty.net/scirocco/ RIP
'02 Mercedes-Benz C230 Kompressor Sports Coupe -
http://getty.net/c230k/ 
    in Heliodongr?n (Citron Green) w/ European Delivery at 43,800 mi


-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of T. Reed
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 1:59 AM
To: Mark
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: Online car manuals!


Wow, thanks for sharing!

What a gold mine! I've always wanted to see the TSBs.. but I'm too
cheap for an Alldata subscription.

I already leeched them for the 87 16v Scirocco. Those of you who run
Linux can do this by just viewing the TSBs in a web browser, picking
your car and model year, etc. then looking in your cookie jar and
writing down the relevant numbers for cookies CFID and CFTOKEN. Plug
them in in place of XXXXXX and YYYYYYYY.

Then run:
wget -k -r -p --cookies=off --header "Cookie: CFID=XXXXXX;
CFTOKEN=YYYYYYYY" "http://www.e-toolbox.com/ads/tsb1.cfm";

Since the webmaster of this site was an idiot and used backslashes
instead of forward slashes, you have to run a script like this to fix
the links (run it in ~/www.e-toolbox.com/pdf/):

#!/bin/sh
for I in *.pdf; do
  DIR=`echo $I | cut -d\\\  -f1`
  NAME=`echo $I | cut -d\\\  -f2`
  [ ! -d $DIR ]&&mkdir $DIR
  mv -v $I $DIR/$NAME
done

Now you will have a directory called www.e-toolbox.com (rename it,
duh) and you can view the TSBs offline by just opening:
file://localhost/path/to/your/homedir/www.e-toolbox.com/ads/tsb1.cfm

Much easier than downloading all 428 pdf files by hand! "Right click,
Save Target As..", "Right click, Save Target As..", "Right click, Save
Target As..", etc.

-Toby

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Mark wrote:

> Gleaned this link off the Megasquirt email list...
>
> http://www.e-toolbox.com/ads/
>
> I checked it out, and it's the real thing.  There's a TON of info
> there. I just looked at the Ford Escort EDIS system I have to find
in 
> the junkyards, and there was some good info on how it works, and
where 
> to find the stuff, torque specs, etc...
>
> Handy link to have around if you're like me - the "car guy" that all
> your friends and family come to if they've got a problem with their 
> car...
>
> Mark.
> 80 S
> 81 S  ABA/JH/4K
>
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