lynx-dev Re: lynx question/batch mode

[Webmaster Jim]

On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 05:31:45PM +0000, Cynthia Griffiths (516)233-6839 wrote:
> I am using Lynx 2.4-FM on an digital alpha running VMS. 
[ there are later versions that have Many Bug Fixes...]

> I am attempting to use lynx in batch mode.  I have followed an example
> that I saw on the lynx web site:
> **************************************
> lynx -get_data < get.parms http://www.metacrawler.com/crawler > get.result
> The file get.parms in this case contains all the 
> parameters URLencoded on one line and
> the terminating triple-hyphen on a following line:
> general=Lynx+Links&method=2&format=1&region=0&rpp=20&timeout  =15&hpe=10
> ---
> *******************************************
> Would you be able to point out what am doing incorrectly??
> The above does not run in "batch" mode, it waits for a q to quit!

In UNIX, the following works (apologies for the long line):

echo "general=Lynx+Links&method=2&format=1&region=0&rpp=20&timeout=15&hpe=10"|\
lynx -get_data http://www.metacrawler.com/crawler

Perhaps some rearrangement of this for VMS might be made to work.

[But you should upgrade; Lynx2-8-1 builds on VMS]
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