lynx-dev Re: An idea for Lynx

[Al Gilman]

Look in the H)elp for current Lynx on how in lynx.cfg you can set up wget
as an EXTERNAL command for doing such downloads.

Al

At 06:58 PM 8/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I have an idea for the Lynx browser.  The downloads in Lynx seem to
>disconnect when I'm downloading big things; more than likely that is
>because of a network read error when I'm on my modem connection, because
>I've never seen it happen on faster connections.
>
>I'm wondering if you guys could throw in the ability to use something like
>wget to download, when one activates a non-supported link (i.e., not one
>that Lynx can *INTERNALLY* display), that you can have a user option that
>will say, "Use mailcap / use wget / use Internal Downloader".
>
>Is this possible or not?  If I could program well, I would download a
>development source and make a patch against it myself... but I can't
>exactly do that because I don't know anything about C or C++ programming,
>let alone UNIX/Linux specific extensions (gee, what good is a QuickBASIC
>programmer anymore? :-).
>
>       Thanks,
>       Mike Trausch
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