On Tue, 13 May 2025, Karen Lewellen wrote: > It seems that, at least when I use pine or alpine for these downloads, lynx is > also attempting to unzip the file itself. > Any idea what might trigger this?
mailcap or MIME or something, most likely. If this is a link within a page you already have in lynx, then use the d key instead of the cursor-right or enter key to activate the link, that will force a download. If this is in an eMail, after you hit enter (or whatever), when it asks you what to do with the link, don’t hit enter immediately; rather, press A to change the application, Ctrl-K to delete the preset value, enter 'wget' (without the quotes) and hit enter; then it will use GNU wget instead of lynx, which by default will download to your home directory I think, or possibly the one you started pine (or alpine) from. Good luck, //mirabilos (a pine/alpine user as well) -- > Wish I had pine to hand :-( I'll give lynx a try, thanks. Michael Schmitz on nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k a.k.a. {news.gmane.org/nntp}#news.gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k in pine
