Long live the fastest browser in existance LYNX
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 01:20:09PM +0000, Jose Angel Amador Fundora wrote:
> > On 7 Jul 99 at 14:24, K. David Prince wrote:
> >
> > > See below....
> > >
> > > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > qsl.net, however that seems to be broken as well. It only allows ftp via
> > > > http, and for some reason it prints everything to the screen instead of
> > > > opening a dialogue box for downloading to disk as it should. My browsers are
> > >
> > > When this happens, I "right click" the url and do a "save link as..." at
> > > which point, the file transfer menu comes up and does the transfer. -kdp
> >
> > I have not tried THIS url, but a few url's insist on painting
> > funny characters on my Lynx screen, instead of allowing to save
> > the file. Any suggestions to force saving on Lynx, or is it a source
> > problem?
> >
> > I end using wget on those stubborn url's, but maybe I could learn
> > something new about Lynx, the browser I use.
>
> If you type "d" instead of enter after highlighting a URL, it will be
> downloaded as a file. This takes care of the ones which lynx cannot
> recognize.
>
> Unfortunately with many sites it is hard to tell if the link is actually
> to the file itself or another page, so I've ended up downloading html
> source a few times.
>
> Bob
>
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