Re: lynx-dev LYNX: do the "override?" msg FIRST (as well as at end?)

[Natasha Live]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 08:41:12AM -0700, James Phillips wrote:
> --- David Combs <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, David Combs wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Currently, it isn't until AFTER you have downloaded
> > > > some maybe huge (emacs is 50mb!) file that you find
> > > > out that you ALREADY have an identically-named file on
> > > > the disk.
> > > > ... 
> > > > Yes, many things use simple names, like "index", but
> > > > many more (?) have full names, like foo-3.8.2.tar.gz,
> > > > and you'd like (maybe) to know BEFORE downloading if
> > > > perhaps you ALREADY have it.
> > > > ... 
> > > > Anyone think that some such facility would be useful?
> > > <SNIP!>
> 
> The "big 2" change the colour of visited links, which would fix this
> problem.
> May be difficult with only 4 colours though (VT100); and useless for
> blind users.

Maybe not. I do use a colour terminal, but i use a similar system for 
my cache program (wwwoffle). When offline it modifies the html to "wrap"
all the links in a page with either:
1) {} = cached link
2) [] = requested link (will get next time online)
3) ## = neither the above.

Of course to go down this route you would have to implement a method
for lynx to keep track of visited links between sessions.
> 
> -James
> 

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