Using urlview on image URLs.

2001-09-19 Thread Jean-Sebastien Morisset
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,

Re: Using urlview on image URLs.

2001-09-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 image

Re: Using urlview on image URLs.

2001-09-19 Thread Jean-Sebastien Morisset
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 03:40:02PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > 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 di

Re: Using urlview on image URLs.

2001-09-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 03:53:27PM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Morisset wrote: > > 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. > > No can do. Lynx creates a temporary filename which is deleted as lynx > exits - w

Re: Using urlview on image URLs.

2001-09-24 Thread Steve Cooper
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:20:57AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Morisset decreed: > 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 ima

Re: Using urlview on image URLs.

2001-09-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Steve Cooper [24/09/01 20:33 +]: > The attached Python script loads the entire email into a GUI browser as > HTML, with URLs made into real hyperlinks. Nothing attached ...

Re: Using urlview on image URLs. (Here's the script)

2001-09-24 Thread Steve Cooper
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:20:57AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Morisset decreed: > 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 ima