Re: [Lynx-dev] dump without wrapping?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 13 May 2010, gobnat wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm trying to dump web pages to text files, but without any line 
> wrapping. I have tried -width=<large number> but it seems to wrap at 
> around 990 characters (and -width=0, defaults to 80).
>
> Is there some way to dump a file without applying any line wrapping 
> (other than that dictated by the html) with lynx?  If not, how do I 
> request it as a new feature? (if 990 is a magic number then a bigger 
> magic number would also be fine)

It is a compiled-in limit.

There are several cases which use this limit, but the most common one is 
that formatted lines are stored in locally-managed memory chunks. 
Increasing the limit at compile-time is (assuming that the chunk-size is 
much larger than the linesize-limit) relatively straightforward, but 
changing the memory scheme would not be.

A dump uses the same formatting logic as would be used for the screen 
layout, taking the formatted lines and translating underlining, etc.

(There are also buffers with fixed-size, but they're not as important in 
the dump).

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