> 1) is it possible to save the blog each post as a
> "web page complete" folder (i.e. a self-contained
> folder as in Firefox/IE)locally?  I would like to be
> able to zip a folder containing a single post and
> email it to someone for offline viewing.

Each header image, css files would be duplicated for each page, greatly
increasing the size. Httrack saves one copy of each file, irregardless of how
many times it is referenced.

Answer, no, not part of the design.

> 2) Is it possible to execute a command, e.g.

See the programming interface documentation.