The message below from Gisli Ottarsson
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>Lynx team:
>
>I just had an experience with lynx that may be food for thought.
>
>I logged on a linux machine running lynx. This machine automounts my
>home directory which lives on another machine on a congested network.
>
>I used lynx in ftp mode to download a large file (680Mb) which it did,
>storing the data temporarily in a file named L12120-9789TMP.bin.
>After successfully completing the download, lynx prompted me for a
>permanent name for this file.
>
>I accepted the default and this is when lynx did something unexpected.
>Rather than renaming the temporary file, it copied it to a file with
>the new name, thereby:
>
> 1) sending the 680Mb twice over the network, from my home machine to
> the linux machine and back. This took over 15 minutes during
> which lynx appeared to have hung.
>
> 2) running the risk of running out of disk space.
>
>To add insult to injury, after the copy operation, lynx failed to
>remove the temporary file, L12120-9789TMP.bin.
>
>Apart from this, thanks for a lovely product.
>
>Regards
>
> Gisli
>
>
>--
>Gisli Ottarsson, PhD
>Mechanical Dynamics Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>2301 Commonwealth Blvd. Tel: 1-734-913-2550
>Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 Fax: 1-734-994-6418
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