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Re: lynx-dev Win32 docs patch (was: Lynx and downloading files)
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Leonid Pauzner |
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Re: lynx-dev Win32 docs patch (was: Lynx and downloading files) |
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Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:28:46 +0400 (MSD) |
20-Apr-99 13:00 Don Adaway wrote:
> As the user mentioned above may I make a comment? The problem was self-
> inflicted. My original intention was to ensure that downloaded files
> arrived in a directory of my choice. I had discovered that files were
> being downloaded to the working directory. This was \lynx by default
> and because this directory contains the all-important Lynx binaries I
> preferred that they go elsewhere. Accordingly I changed the working
> directory, but this had the effect that cp.exe (in the \lynx directory)
a working directory and a PATH - two big differences.
> was no longer on the path and another program called cp.exe (in the
> path) was being executed. This would not have happened had I understood
> the significance of the working directory, the path, and the existence
> of the SAVE_SPACE variable in the behaviour of Lynx.
> The only place where the existence of the SAVE_SPACE variable is
> mentioned is in the lynx.cfg file itself; none of the help files mention
> it that I can find. I feel that mention of the possible interaction
> between working directory, path and SAVE_SPACE should appear somewhere;
> possibly comment lines in lynx.cfg would do the trick. It's all obvious
> when you know, but then perhaps I'm the only person stupid enough to
> have had this problem.
> --
> Don chervil @ freeuk . com
- lynx-dev Win32 docs patch (was: Lynx and downloading files), (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev Win32 docs patch (was: Lynx and downloading files), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/04/19
- Re: lynx-dev Win32 docs patch (was: Lynx and downloading files), Doug Kaufman, 1999/04/19
- Re: lynx-dev Win32 docs patch (was: Lynx and downloading files), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/04/20
- lynx-dev bookmarks and remove()/COPY_PATH/MV_PATH (was: Win32 docs patch), Klaus Weide, 1999/04/20
- Re: lynx-dev bookmarks and remove()/COPY_PATH/MV_PATH (was: Win32 docs patch), pg, 1999/04/20
- Re: lynx-dev bookmarks and remove()/COPY_PATH/MV_PATH (was: Win32 docs patch), Klaus Weide, 1999/04/20
- Re: lynx-dev Win32 docs patch (was: Lynx and downloading files), Don Adaway, 1999/04/20
- Re: lynx-dev Win32 docs patch, Philip Webb, 1999/04/20
- Re: lynx-dev Win32 docs patch (was: Lynx and downloading files),
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