Re: LYNX-DEV Need help w/Usenet + Lynx

[Foteos Macrides]

Roger Hill <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bob Van Alstene wrote:
>
>> 
>> I really need help saving binaries from Lynx.  When scrolling through the 
>> actual UUEncoding, I notice that Lynx will add extra nonsensical links 
>> into the coding and this messes up my decoder (Wincode.) I would greatly 
>> appreciate any help anyone can give.
>> 
>Are you using the 'd' command for dowmloading?  It sounds like you
>have"SCAN_FOR_BURIED_NEWS_REFS:TRUE" (see Lynx.cfg).   Try starting lynx
>as:
>lynx -buried_news
>and see if that helps.

        You'd use that for a one-shot fetch, but when using Lynx
interactively simply toggle to source ('\').  The news/nntp/snews
gateway treats that as a request for the raw news artical headers
and body, not for it's pseudo HTML as source, and that can be
saved to disk and uudecoded.

                                Fote

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