LYNX-DEV Is it possible...

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

When using Netscape or Mosaic I notice that I am frequently, though not
always, told as pages are downloading that the software is at

XXX of YYY bytes

or a percentage, etc.

Is there anything along those lines that Lynx could provide, if it is not
able to do the downloading in a separate thread?

My preference would be to be able to tell lynx to go off and download a
.tar.gz and then continue browsing, etc. and have the download occur
'in the background'. 

Similarly, as I move from web page to web page I would love someday to
be able to start looking at a page, and, in the case where the file
is horridly long or the link terribly slow, be able to move on to the
next page before the current one completed (not ala z, but ala clicking
on an active link).  I suspect this case will remain a problem until we have
an updated libwww.  And that's fine.  Perhaps we will never get to
the point of supporting this.  I can live with that, as long as lynx
remains fast.
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