On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:20:57AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Morisset wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I often receive plain/text e-mails with URLs in them. Normally, I would
> call up urlview, select the url, and then lynx would start-up to display
> that page. My problem is that some of the URLs point to images. :-) If I
> use the standard urlview->lynx technique, lynx will download the image,
> start xv (my prefered image viewer), and then exit. When lynx exits, it
> removes the temporary file it downloaded, which causes xv to display an
> error about not finding the specified file. :-)
>
> Anyone have any ideas how I can download and view image URLs?
wrap the call to lynx in a shell script that hardlinks the file to a
different name, and removes the file when the script is done.
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