Re: LYNX-DEV non-interactive use of lynx?

[Philip Webb]

980210 Guoguang Lu wrote: 
> I want to put a command in the middle unix shell or other program language
> so that some data could be downloaded from a given anonymous ftp site
> or a home page without interference of the user.
> I only know how to download the file by lynx interactively.

i believe you can say  lynx -dump http://etc >file.name :
enter  lynx -help  to get descriptions of switches.
 
> If lynx cannot do it, could you know any way which can do it?

there's a program  wget  which has been recommended by several people:
goto  ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/ .
 
> I would appreciate any hints.
 
no-one else picked this up, so you have my best attempt:
Lynx is developed & maintained by an international co-op of volunteers.

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