Re: lynx-dev Avoiding line breaks while downloading gz

[Vlad Harchev]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 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.

 If you've just viewed the file, press 'V' (that will popup a list of
visited documents and a link to the current document will current link) and
then 'd' to download it. 
 
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  -Vlad


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