Thank you, Karen and Thomas, for your input; and I will follow up on your suggestions, Tim, regarding wget and lynx.cfg. If all else fails, I can perhaps write a script for it.
On 9/28/13, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Graham Lawrence wrote: >> > If I wish to download a file whose name contains spaces, Lynx >> > presents a suggested name for the file consisting only of the >> > first word of its name. Is there any convenient way to have Lynx >> > present the entire name instead? > > You might be able to use the EXTERN_LINK command (by default, I > think this is bound to the period) to launch something like "wget" on > the URL which might preserve the entire filename. By default, my > /etc/lynx.cfg has entries that include launching wget to pull down > files. I haven't tested it on anything with a space in the name, but > from what I see in the file, I'm not sure whether the "%s" needs to > be wrapped in double-quotes to prevent the shell from treating the > space-separated bits as separate parameters. > > -Tim > > > > > -- Graham Lawrence _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
