On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Pat Traynor wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Matt wrote:
>
> > Whenever I have to dial up (phone lines here are terrible) and get a
> > nice (speedy here) 28.8K connection and have a large download to do
> > with lynx, I just run lynx under screen and switch to another "window"
> > while it does its work. (Usually just sitting at a ksh prompt.)
>
> I use SecureCRT on my Windows machine and switch to another window to do
> work while the download is in progress, but even in the minimized
> window, the byte count progress is still being reported through the
> modem lines. If I have two windows running Lynx and downloading large
> files, it pretty much saturates my bandwidth. I've experimented with
> even three Lynx downloads, and at that point, my modem can't keep up
> with the byte count, and the downloaded files all wind up corrupted.
That's why I suggested screen for the Unix side. (You stated you used zip disks, and I
don't know of zip support under VMS. So, I assumed... ;) You can find screen at
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen or http://freshmeat.net/projects/screen/ . It lets you
switch between multiple "screens" in one login session. It's easier to use than to
describe. But for low-bandwidth situations, it can be a life-saver.
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Try:
> >
> > lynx -source URL >filename.
>
> Unfortunately this won't work (i.e., I don't know how to make it work),
> because the site that I go to primarily requests a login/passwd to get
> to my account.
Have you tried lynx -source -auth id:pw URL > filename
Don't know when -auth was added though. I only recently discovered it.
--Matt
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