Re: lynx-dev lynx, cron and tty

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote:

> i am still wrestling w/ running lynx from a cron job ...
>
>
> i have tried:
>
> stty cols 160 rows 80

stty is likely to be less effective than setting environment variables
$LINES and $COLUMNS

> lynx -cmd_script=myscript http://www.url.com > /dev/stty3 > outfile.txt
>
> but the piped data output from lynx is still truncated as if there
> is a default tty size cron uses. i have not been able to figure this
> out. i cannot use -dump option because i have to use the script to
> navigate an ssl server. based on values piped to outfile.txt, i buld
> more scripts to run in lynx.
>
> also, changing and exporting bash environment variables COLUMNS and
> LINES to values i need is ineffective as well.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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