>>>>> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 01:37:37 -0600 (CST), Klaus Weide said:
KW> On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Fiber McGee [sic] wrote:
>> > 1) sending the 680Mb twice over the network, from my home machine to
>> > the linux machine and back. This took over 15 minutes during
>> > which lynx appeared to have hung.
KW> You gotta admit that 680Mb AND your remote-mount setup is an
KW> unusual situation... Lynx deals with it, but isn't exactly
KW> optimized for this situation.
Fortunately, a 680Mb file size is certainly rare. (Auto) NFS mounted
home directories probably are not. My home directory can only reside
on one machine and through the course of my work I must work on many
different machines.
>> >To add insult to injury, after the copy operation, lynx failed to
>> >remove the temporary file, L12120-9789TMP.bin.
KW> It would have removed it eventually, when exiting at the latest.
It did.
KW> If you need to do this frequently, consider using a mechanism different
KW> from the default builtin "Save to disk" implementation (which isn't
KW> optimal for your situation). A DOWNLOADER in lynx.cfg which does a
KW> mv, probably after prompting for a name, should do the trick.
Thanks for the tip. I could see how this would do the trick. Is
there any reason that this shouldn't be the default thought?
Anyway, thanks again for your wonderful work.
Best regards.
Gisli
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