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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: do the "override?" msg FIRST (as well as at end?)
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James Phillips |
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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: do the "override?" msg FIRST (as well as at end?) |
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Sat, 5 Aug 2000 08:41:12 -0700 (PDT) |
--- David Combs <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, David Combs wrote:
> >
> > > Currently, it isn't until AFTER you have downloaded
> > > some maybe huge (emacs is 50mb!) file that you find
> > > out that you ALREADY have an identically-named file on
> > > the disk.
> > > ...
> > > Yes, many things use simple names, like "index", but
> > > many more (?) have full names, like foo-3.8.2.tar.gz,
> > > and you'd like (maybe) to know BEFORE downloading if
> > > perhaps you ALREADY have it.
> > > ...
> > > Anyone think that some such facility would be useful?
> > <SNIP!>
The "big 2" change the colour of visited links, which would fix this
problem.
May be difficult with only 4 colours though (VT100); and useless for
blind users.
-James
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