Re: lynx-dev lynx -dump wraps lines?

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Hawkinson wrote:

> | 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 :-)
> 
> Err, you have not made it clear to me why "lynx -dump" is allowed
> to wrap text/plain lines. It is quite clear to me that using lynx -source
> works, but it was also not intuitivle obvious to me, and I would not
> expect it to be to the next person with this problem.

With -dump lynx does not just occasionally wrap lines, it also does other
things to the text:
  - character set transformation
  - tab expansion
  - stripping of control chars (I hope)
  - decoding of 'content-encoding' .gz, .Z, possibly .bz2  (though it
    appears this normally also happens with -source)

So it is quite different from -source, for text/plain as well as
text/html.  I agree this is not "intuitively obvious".  How about
patches for -help output / man / Users Guide, or at least a list
of places where some note should be added (and what should it say?)

   Klaus