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Re: LYNX-DEV Hex escaping & and company
From: |
Benjamin C. W. Sittler |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Hex escaping & and company |
Date: |
Fri, 23 May 1997 09:26:23 -0600 (MDT) |
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Duncan Hill wrote:
> After scrabbling around, I finally found how to turn & into %26 :)
> Interestingly enough, none of the search engines found any references to
> that in the archives. Anyway, is there any reason for a server not to
> accept %26 in place of an &? I can't type the & at the prompt, because
> that'll background the process, without finishing the search URL.
>
> The URL in question is:
> http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/display?phot=yes&dir=meteosat/tropics_vapor
>
> I can escape the /, and the ='s, but not the &. Any clues?
Put the whole URL inside double quotes, like this:
lynx
"http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/display?phot=yes&dir=meteosat/tropics_vapor"
That should prevent your process from being backgrounded. The reason you
can't escape the &'s is that unescaped &'s are field separators, and
escaped &'s are literal &'s in the field values.
HTH,
Ben. (A happy user of Screen)
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