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Re: lynx-dev Avoiding line breaks while downloading gz |
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000 05:15:52 -0700 |
In "Re: lynx-dev Avoiding line breaks while downloading gz"
[20/Sep/2000 Wed 04:20:34]
address@hidden wrote:
> In a recent note, Sergei Pokrovsky said:
>
> > Date: 20 Sep 2000 18:04:22 +0700
> >
> > TED> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:06:12PM +0700, Sergei Pokrovsky wrote:
> > >> Yesterday I've had some unpleasant experience with lynx after having
> > >> downloaded a program: <ftp://kdstevens.com/pub/stevens/ispell.el.gz>.
> >
> > TED> It sounds as if you view'd the file and then print'd the
> > TED> display. You have to instead simply download the file without
> > TED> trying to display it.
> >
> > Yes. How can I download a file without (or after) trying to display
> > it?
> >
> (G)o to the URL of the directory, ftp://kdstevens.com/pub/stevens/
> and press (D)ownload on the line of the filename. If there's no
> directory in the path, or if the ISP forbids directory browsing,
> it's much harder.
Actually, that's a lot easier than it might seem too. I do this
a lot when I can't find links to a file I want to d)ownload, or
if I'm not on the internet at the time:
You just write yourself a *very* short HTML file, like this:
foo.html
<HEAD><TITLE>Even the title's optional</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<A HREF="ftp://kdstevens.com/pub/stevens/ispell.el.gz";>
Select this link and press 'd'
</A>
</BODY>
Then call Lynx with: lynx ~/foo.html and do like it says.
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