Re: lynx-dev Re: your mail

[T.E.Dickey]

> T.E.Dickey wrote: 
>  
> | > And the contents how shows at you? Maybe the problem is at  
> |  
> | I listed the contents with a script that does 'gzip -dc |tar tvf -'. 
>  
> and after downloading where saved boa-xy.tar.gz? 

I ran it from my home directory; the file was saved there.
  
> | This is the page that I downloaded from (yes, dev.17 trims the blank lines, 
> | but since that was the only bug that impacted me, I've not compiled dev.18 
> | on my ISP account): 
>  
> OK, I check again. I go to the page: 
>  
> |           Download: http://www.boa.org/boa-0.94.2.tar.gz (573 hits) 
>  
> and I do an <ENTER> on the Download link. 
> Downloading started. After download I see something, maybe 
> gzip -cd executed, I don't know, and I receive back the 
> Download page. This is my problem. 

perhaps the location of gzip changed (e.g., from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin)
since you last configured/built?

Lynx has compiled-in the full pathname of the programs that it uses (that
can be overridden with the --disable-full-paths option).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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