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Re: LYNX-DEV P command; also failed search
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Larry W. Virden, x2487 |
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Re: LYNX-DEV P command; also failed search |
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Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:03:17 -0500 |
address@hidden (Philip Webb) wrote:
> is anyone else puzzled &/or mildly irritated by the behaviour of Lynx
> in the following respects? should the next version revise things? --
Puzzled I can understand - why in the world would you be 'mildly irritated'
because someone else has a need you don't understand?
> (1) the command p calls up a new screen giving 3 options:
> (a) save to file, (b) e-mail the page, (c) print to screen.
> (a) is very useful & straightforward, but why would anyone want (b, c)?
Actually, when I do a P, I see:
Lynx Printing Options
Printing Options (Lynx Version 2.7.1ac-0.97)
There are 369 lines, or approximately 6 pages, to print.
You have the following print choices.
Please select one:
[1]Save to a local file
[2]Mail the file
[3]Print to the screen
[4]no format default printer
[5]postscript default printer
[6]weblint page
[7]MOST printer
[8]Use vt100 print sequence to print from your local terminal
so not everyone sees the same thing...
> i can easily e-mail the current page using g + mailto:<e-address>
> & this allows me to edit the file before sending it;
Yes, but if all I want to do is for instance send a copy of the file,
to myself, for later use in some way, I don't NEED to edit the file.
> using (b) does add the list of URLs at the end,
which is usually the reason I want it - to create a formatted document,
with footnotes, that I can then use later for research purposes.
> but if i really want that i can use (a), then separately use elm .
> as for (c), all it does is scroll the page down the screen too rapidly to
> read!
Ah - perhaps the use here (and I don't know for certain) is for terminals
with printers, so that folk can get a local print out of a page?
--
Larry W. Virden INET: address@hidden
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Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should
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- Re: LYNX-DEV Next release of lynx, T.E.Dickey, 1997/11/19
- LYNX-DEV Next release, status of development code, Klaus Weide, 1997/11/22
- Re: LYNX-DEV Next release, status of development code, T.E.Dickey, 1997/11/22
- Re: LYNX-DEV Next release, status of development code, Hynek Med, 1997/11/23
- LYNX-DEV P command; also failed search, Philip Webb, 1997/11/25
- Re: LYNX-DEV P command; also failed search, Andrew Cormack, 1997/11/25
- Re: LYNX-DEV P command; also failed search,
Larry W. Virden, x2487 <=
- Re: LYNX-DEV P command; also failed search, Klaus Weide, 1997/11/25