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Re: LYNX-DEV pause times in -traversal
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Jason Baker |
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Re: LYNX-DEV pause times in -traversal |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 10:29:02 -0800 |
Scott McGee (Personal) writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I was running a traversal of my site today, and noticed that it runs exremely
> fast, except when it finds a bad link, and then it sits and pauses for several
> seconds. Normally, the INFO MESSAGE and ALERT pauses are very good to have,
> but I wonder if they are really usefull during a -traversal at all. I know
> they are not usefull to me in -traversal mode. I even tried a local copy of
> lynx.cfg with the values set to 0, but the ALERTs still pause for about
> three seconds.
>
> What would others think of skipping the pause during a -traversal? If you
> don't think you'd like that, how about an additional switch to turn off
> the pause?
>
> I suppose I should mention that one reason I run lynx in -traversal mode is to
> identify such problems (via the contents of the errors.dat file) and so I
> _expect_ such errors, but still don't need lynx to pause for each one.
I agree with Scott - I've found the pauses a bit annoying myself. A switch
from the command line (lynx -traversal -nopause?) would probably be better
than just saying "If traversing, no pausing", though. Keeps with the
idea that you can configure lynx to do anything you want. :)
> Scott
Jason
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