Re: LYNX-DEV DownLoading in background

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Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
> 
> 
> >   Is it possible to download a document in background using lynx ?
> > 
> >   If not, could you please add this feature in the next version 
> >   of lynx .
> > 
> >   I have to download some documents which are very large. I cannot
> >   just sit in front of my computer for hours for waiting them to 
> >   be downloaded.
> > 
> >   So if you can suggest some alternative way of doing it, I'll be
> >   really very grateful to you.
> 
> Are you really asking this question:
> 
> Is there a way that lynx could be enhanced so that once you start a download,
> you could then go on and down web browsing while the download occured in the
> background?
> 
> Or is the question:
> 
> Is there a way that lynx could be enhanced so that, in interactive mode, a
> user could specify the download file name, start the download, and when the
> download successfully completes, the file is saved without further 
> intervention? This way a user doesn't have to be remember to check in 
> periodicly to perform the save.
> 
> The modifications for these two questions are quite different.

I do believe they where asking if lynx could be modified so that hitting ^Z
would sleep lynx, rather than killing the current operation, and, along with
that, so that if lynx is running in the background, it doesn't attempt to
update the status message.  IMHO this would be a very useful feature (1), and
dosen't sound to hard (2). 

(1) Not to me, I use the beautifull terminal multiplexer known as linux <G>
(2) WARNING: That is not the oppinion of a good programer.  I realy wouldn't
know.

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