Re: possible in lynx file download?

2013-04-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Thank you , Wes, for the very complete and helpful explanation. You seem to know a lot about this. I hope you don't mind if I continue to pick your brain on this subject... (-: On Mar 31, 2013, at 7:49 PM, wes wrote: hi rick. But when I try downloading the MD5SUMS file from the same

Re: possible in lynx file download?

2013-04-01 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:49:06 -0400 (EDT) wes david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: Is this a bug in Lynx? i do not believe so. afaict, lynx adds those lines for generally sensible reasons, as explained here: I believe it actually is a bug. It shouldn't do so when the content isn't

Re: possible in lynx file download?

2013-04-01 Thread davidson
[my reply follows the quoted text] On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Andrew Shadura wrote: On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:49:06 -0400 (EDT) Hello, wes david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: Is this a bug in Lynx? i do not believe so. afaict, lynx adds those lines for generally sensible reasons, as explained

possible in lynx file download?

2013-03-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Macs (an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze) I use lynx to download cd-images from cdimage.debian.org. I have no problem getting CD .iso images. (Except that it seems to prefer IPv6, which is significantly slower for me than IPv4. Is there a config option to change that

Re: possible in lynx file download?

2013-03-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 03:38:32PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Macs (an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze) I use lynx to download cd-images from cdimage.debian.org. I have no problem getting CD .iso images. (Except that it seems to prefer IPv6, which is significantly slower for me

Re: possible in lynx file download?

2013-03-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
have you highlighted the md5sums file then tried hitting the (d) key? With lynx I notice on certain sites different behavior depending on whether the (d) key is used or the enter key is used to start a download. On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Rick Thomas wrote: On Macs (an apple macintosh G4,

Re: possible in lynx file download?

2013-03-31 Thread wes
hi rick. But when I try downloading the MD5SUMS file from the same directory, I get a few lines of HTML pre-pended to the downloaded file. lines like the following? !-- X-URL: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.7/powerpc/iso-cd/MD5SUMS -- !-- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:34:12 GMT -- !--