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Re: lynx-dev Avoiding line breaks while downloading gz
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Avoiding line breaks while downloading gz |
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000 06:43:38 -0400 |
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:06:12PM +0700, Sergei Pokrovsky wrote:
> Yesterday I've had some unpleasant experience with lynx after having
> downloaded a program: <ftp://kdstevens.com/pub/stevens/ispell.el.gz>.
It sounds as if you view'd the file and then print'd the display.
You have to instead simply download the file without trying to display it.
> The program did not compile, and I've lost some time before
> discovering that the long lines are broken in a most straightforward
> manner:
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> ,----
> | ;;; ispell.el --- Interface to International Ispell Versions 3.1 and 3.2
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> | ;; Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software
> Foundation, I
> | nc.
> `----
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> That is, "Inc." has produced an uncommented "nc" etc.
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> How can I avoid such a disservice in the future?
>
> --
> Sergei
>
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