lynx-dev LYNX: "d": need way to give file name to

[David Combs]

Lets suppose there's an ftp site that I can get
to in lynx: lynx shows the directory, links numbered, 
etc.

However, if you go to certain of the directories (maybe
all?) under this top directory on this machine, you
get a protection error.

Likewise if, via ftp directly (not lynx), you go to the
machine, then cd to that subdirectory (which ftp does
allow you to do), but then you do "ls", you get the
permissions error.

That is, you can't find out the names of what's IN the
directory, but IF you already KNOW the name of what
you want in it, you CAN get it, via specifying its name exactly.

But that's ftp, not lynx.

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So, wanting to use lynx, not old-fashioned ftp (but thank god it's
still around!), you dream up the idea: I'll just do a "d" from
that top menu, but give the (relative, from there) path TO that
file I want to download.

Can't do it, as far as I know.  "d" downloads only what it is
directly at on the screen; no way to specify something else.


....  AH HA!  I just ^z'd and fg-'d into lynx, did K, and saw
that "D" (uppercase d) is unused.

Maybe "D" could be like "d", but would PROMPT for the file or
pathname to grab...

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Or maybe there's some other way to do this in lynx.

Right now, I'm just going back to ftp to do this one task; but
from what I read on this list, there's lots of people who don't
have access to raw ftp or anything else; just lynx.  For them,
there is NO way to grab such files in directories for which
"ls" isn't allowed, but "get" of a given file IS allowed.

David