Re: lynx-dev lynx -dump wraps lines?

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In a recent note, John Hawkinson said:

> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:04:18 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> I had downloaded the file with "lynx -dump", which I presumed
> was adequate to preserve the file, given that its content-type
> was text/plain.
> 
> In actuality, though, it turned out that "lynx -dump" wrapped
> 2 long lines in the file, causing PGP signature verification to fail.
> 
> The URL in question, for what it is worth, is
> "http://ca.mit.edu/mitca/sig.asc";.
> 
> Is there a clear answer here?
> 
For text/plain, use "lynx -source" rather than "lynx -dump"  For
HTML, it's a thornier question:  Should text with no explicit <BR>
be dumped as one enormously long line.  (Of course, this wouldn't
bother PW :-)

-- gil
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