Re: [Lynx-dev] Default file name when saving HTML documents to disk

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Tunik Vlad-cvt002 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When the 'P' (print) command is used Print Options screen is displayed. 
> If 'Save to a local file' is selected the user is prompted to enter a 
> file name. The user is also presented with the default file name which 
> is formed differently depending on the document type. If the document is 
> <file_name>.html then the default file name is <file_name>.txt. However, 
> if the document is <file_name>.cgi then the default file name is the 
> same name as the document name: <file_name>.cgi. If the user decides to 
> use this default name they will overwrite the original .cgi script 
> making this particular HTML page unusable. Is this a known issue with 
> Lynx browser? Is there a way to control the default file name, or 
> perhaps not to display is at all?

no - essentially all lynx does is edit the URL so that the corresponding
filename is legal.

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