Re: LYNX-DEV Re: downloading docs to local directory

[Foteos Macrides]

Martin Voges <address@hidden> wrote:
>On 31/10/96 Culhane <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>I want to download pictures and docs from the web to my
>>local directory on my unix account.  At the moment when I
>>try to download filesThey are downloaded to another
>>directory on the  Unix system which does not exist.  How do
>>I change the default directory to my local  directory.
>
>You can a) edit the SAVE_SPACE definition in lynx.cfg or
>b) set a LYNX_SAVE_SPACE environment variable or
>c) edit the filename prompt offered by Lynx (though that
>doesn't change the default).

        Hurrah!!!  The right answer!  And as in the followup, it uses
the current default directory if neither SAVE_SPACE nor LYNX_SAVE_SPACE
were set.  Also, it uses the account's login directory if it can't open
a file in the current default.  Also, on both Unix and VMS, you can
use the line editor to put  ~/  in front of the filename offered, to
indicate the login directory (VMSers can use that platforms path logicals
as well, e.g., SYS$LOGIN:foo.suffix, but ~/foo.suffix is shorter 8-).

>I'm assuming Lynx 2.6; don't know if these are right for
>older versions.

        I added SAVE_SPACE and LYNX_SAVE_SPACE in v2.5.  The v2.5 and
v2.6 lynx.cfg is the "self-documentation" for them. :) :)
        
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