Re: [Lynx-dev] How to stop the terminal display

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Biswajit Paul wrote:

> Thanks Thomas for the reply.
>
> It worked from the prompt :)
>
> Now I am planning to replace lynx "main"  by " lynx_main"  and call from my
> program. Will it still work ?

probably (assuming your main program provides the same stdin, stdout and
stderr as the original main gets).

> Is there any compile time MACRO/option that can stop the display or any code
> change needed ?

you could try combining it with -dump, which could be more efficient.

> One more query: While crawling how to set the depth of traversal ?

That doesn't seem to be configurable...

> Thanks & Regards
> Biswajit
>
>
>
>
> On 9 March 2011 17:12, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Biswajit Paul wrote:
> >
> >  Hello,
> > > I am using lynx as a crawler + text extractor.
> > >
> > > lynx    -crawl    -traversal   -accept_all_cookies    <URL>
> > >
> > > By default, when crawling, lynx continuously keep displaying html pages on
> > > terminal and save dump(plain text) in file.
> > >
> > > But I do NOT want any display on the terminal. How to stop the terminal
> > > display ?
> >
> > Did you try redirecting the display to /dev/null?
> >
> > For example
> >
> > lynx -crawl -traversal -accept_all_cookies <URL>   >/dev/null
> >
> > --
> > Thomas E. Dickey
> > http://invisible-island.net
> > ftp://invisible-island.net

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