On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 01:20:09PM +0000, Jose Angel Amador Fundora wrote:
> > 
> > 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. 

Use lynx in advanced mode (look in .lynxrc).
The URLs are shown on the status line and you can see
that it is http, ftp or whatever.

Kevin

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