Re: lynx-dev Download indicator hogs my bandwidth

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Pat Traynor wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Mike Castle wrote:
>
> > Perhaps if the Pat ran lynx under script, and obtained some numbers there,
> > we could attack the issue from that view point.
>
> This morning, I ran Lynx without my patch, but it's not the latest
> version.  It's version 2.8rel.2.  I went to my news server and
> downloaded a 90-meg file.  The download took about 15 minutes and
> created a 600k typescript file.  I've zipped it and put it here:

how long would the download take with the patch?
(if you're downloading 90Mb in 15 minutes, that's certainly not
a 14.4kb line).

>
> http://www.page-crafters.com/lynx
>
> If you think it would be better to do the same test with the latest
> version of Lynx, let me know and I'll do that.
>
> --pat--
>

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