If you want *just* the html files and can deal with
bzip2, I've created
a tarball of just that, here:
http://www.osdlab.org/~bryce/wikipedia_html.tar.bz2 (4.3M)
Thanks, Bryce!
BTW -- other list readers, the bzip2 home page is
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2
I downloaded the executable to my PC and it worked fine.
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