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Re: Re[2]: LYNX-DEV Using lynx for command line ftp.
From: |
Wayne Buttles |
Subject: |
Re: Re[2]: LYNX-DEV Using lynx for command line ftp. |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Dec 1997 08:53:30 -0500 (EST) |
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997 address@hidden wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 1997 13:56:50 -0500, Joe Batt <address@hidden> said:
> >lynx -source ftp://myhost.dom/my_file.zip > my_file.zip
> >
> >On WinNT with the 32 bit version, the zip file gets ascii translated to
> >have CRLFs in it.
>
> Lynx is writing to stdout and the ``OS'' is redirecting the output
> to my_file.zip. As I recall stdout is opened in text mode and the OS
> uses text mode to perform the redirection.
Well I just tried setting _fmode = O_BINARY; and it still corrupts zips on
the way down (with or without 4dos). Either I missed lynx setting the
mode back or piping under windos is text mode only.
Is this really true? If
> so, there may be little that you can do about it short of using a
> better shell.
>
> --John
>