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Re: lynx-dev automatic gunzip: how to stop?
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pg |
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Re: lynx-dev automatic gunzip: how to stop? |
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Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (MDT) |
In a recent note, James Bence said:
> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:30:32 -0700
>
> software. The CPAN module is calling 'lynx -source URL' to acquire indexes
>
> Is there a .lynxrc option to prevent lynx from uncompressing gzip'ped files?
>
I suppose if you recompiled lynx, setting the path for the gunzip
utility to "/bin/cat", you'd get this effect. But that's pretty drastic. :-(
Other people suggest, "forget lynx; use wget (IIRC) instead".
-- gil1