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> >>>>> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 01:37:37 -0600 (CST), Klaus Weide said:
>
> KW> On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Fiber McGee [sic] wrote:
>
> >> > 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.
>
> KW> You gotta admit that 680Mb AND your remote-mount setup is an
> KW> unusual situation... Lynx deals with it, but isn't exactly
> KW> optimized for this situation.
>
>Fortunately, a 680Mb file size is certainly rare. (Auto) NFS mounted
>home directories probably are not. My home directory can only reside
>on one machine and through the course of my work I must work on many
>different machines.
>
> >> >To add insult to injury, after the copy operation, lynx failed to
> >> >remove the temporary file, L12120-9789TMP.bin.
>
> KW> It would have removed it eventually, when exiting at the latest.
>
>It did.
>
> KW> If you need to do this frequently, consider using a mechanism different
> KW> from the default builtin "Save to disk" implementation (which isn't
> KW> optimal for your situation). A DOWNLOADER in lynx.cfg which does a
> KW> mv, probably after prompting for a name, should do the trick.
>
>Thanks for the tip. I could see how this would do the trick. Is
>there any reason that this shouldn't be the default thought?
>
>Anyway, thanks again for your wonderful work.
>
>Best regards.
>
> Gisli
>
>
>
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>Gisli Ottarsson, PhD
>Mechanical Dynamics Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>2301 Commonwealth Blvd. Tel: 1-734-913-2550
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