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LYNX-DEV BSD/OS bug report 004097


From: Keith Bostic
Subject: LYNX-DEV BSD/OS bug report 004097
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 12:18:35 -0700 (MST)

We recently received the following bug report based on Lynx
2.4.2 BETA which we included in release 2.1 of BSD/OS, and
thought that it might be of interest to you.

Thanks!
--keith

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Subject: Re: Lynx that comes with BSDI 2.1 [BSDI-Support-Request #29488] 
From: Steven Hinkle <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:04:57 -0500

Jim Hribnak writes:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Steven Hinkle wrote:
> Jim Hribnak writes:
>> 
>> G1072
>>
>> Does this only occur with the above site or with any ftp connection?  I
>> just tried to use it to connect to ftp.bsdi.com and I was able to download
>> and save a file to disk.
> 
> Save to disk works fine.. Its only when doing a ZMODEM download.. I fixed
> it and I will send you what I needed to do to get it working..
> 
> There seems to be a BUG with the lynx that ships with BSDI 2.1 (and even
> newer Lynx versions have the same problem)  Here is what I put in my
> /usr/contrib/lib/lynx/lynx.cfg file for the DOWNLOADER directive
> 
> DOWNLOADER:Use Zmodem to download to the local client:tmpfile=%s ;
> szfile=%s ; mv $tmpfile $szfile ; sz $szfile ; rm $szfile:FALSE
> 
> The above must be done on ONE line.  What it does is when there is 2 %s
> vaiables (the 1st is the Lxxxxx.html file name, the 2nd %s will be
> substituted with the ACTUAL file name of the file)  but having just an sz
> %s %s would not work so the above was devisedm it creates tmpfile with the
> Lxxxx.html name in /tmp then moves the file name to %szfile then downloads
> sz file and removes it..  Took me about 3 hours last night to get it
> working...
> 
> Incase it happens again you have an answer :)  Not sure if its a problem
> with the Lynx thjat ships with 3.0 as I have not gotten mine yet.
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