Re: LYNX-DEV back-ground download

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On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Vomberg Semuel wrote:

> sorry, but i had problem when sending this massege, so i'm sending it
> agien, but from other server. if you got it twice - well, sorry.
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Al Gilman wrote:
> 
> > > i tried to make lynx to download in the back-gound, and failed.
> > > what i mean ? when i browsing the net, and see a nice file, i want lynx 
> > > to download it in the backgound, and will let me continue to browse.
> > > can it be done ? 
> > Lynx does not do background downloads at this time.  This capability
> > is frequently asked for, but it's not there now.
> 
> but i'm not asking for background download ! UNIX don't need help with
> multitesking. all that featury needs to do is to run a sub-proccess,
> something like "lynx -source <url> >file.name &", and that's all !
> 
> is it defficult to be done ?

It isn't specifically difficult, at least not on unix (which is how I do
an interruptable name lookup, see HTTCP.c and grep for fork).  But it has
to do with how and where Lynx goes in the code when doing a download.

The problem is that Lynx doesn't ask for a name until the download is
complete.  Also, since the download has a progress indicator that would
have to be sent to /dev/null.  None of this is difficult, but it is
scattered through different points in the code, some in src and some in
WWW/Library...

Control-z will background lynx on most unices, so you can copy the URL if
you are using linux with GPM or an xterm that can cut and paste text to a
lynx -source...

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