Re: LYNX-DEV Forcing download

[Laura Eaves]

> From: Doug Kaufman <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:28:35 -0700 (PDT)
>...
> On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Giancarlo Cairella wrote:
> 
> > If I do a
> >
> > lynx www.server.com/file.tar.gz
> >
> > the file gets downloaded as text and can't be uncompressed when the
> 
> Did you try 'lynx -dump "[9]http://www.server.com/file.tar.gz"; >file.tar.gz' ?
>                              Doug

I've never had trouble doing
        lynx http://www.server.com/file.zip
Lynx prompts me to D)ownload or C)ancel then downloads it as a binary.

If .tar.gz files are downloaded as text, try
        lynx -source http://www.server.com/file.tar.gz >file.tar.gz

I believe -dump will try to render text/html files and -source won't.
--le

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