Re: LYNX-DEV passing a url to a program

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza wrote:

> The point in my question is that I wouldn't like to download the file to my 
> computer. 
> The idea was to pass the URL to the command so that it could access the
> file in the remote site.  This is because I don't need the entire file
> but only information contained in  its begin.

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This is possible with the "External application support" in the
development code introduced by Wayne.  It has to be specifically enabled
though, by specifying  -DUSE_EXTERNALS somewhere before compiling.  Only
documentation so far is in lynx.cfg.  Does someone want to document this,
please?

    Klaus

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