Re: lynx-dev Lynx and mp3 files

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:11:15AM +0100, Michel SUCH wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:21:58 +0100 (BST), David Woolley wrote:
> 
> >> Looking at the file stored in the temporary directory I can see that its
> >> length is different from the original one.
> >
> >Is this by any chance an FTP site.  For FTP, lynx needs to choose between
> >binary and ASCII mode, whereas, for HTTP, the server always chooses
> >the transfer format.
> >
> Well, this also happens on a local file. I am surprised that, for a local
> file, lynx first transfers it to the temp dir and passes it to the viewer.

that's basically how lynx does all of the downloads - reads the file and
then disposes of the temporary file in a later stage.  (I'm downloading an
iso at the moment, and have to watch how the diskspace goes - it's faster
to rename the temporary file than have it recopy ~600Mb).

> I would have expected it to be passed directly.
> is this behaviour the normal one or is there a problem in my os/2 port
> making that lynx would not differenciate correctly this local file from an
> url?
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