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Re: LYNX-DEV Downloading a file in background


From: Philip Webb
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Downloading a file in background
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:31:07 -0500 (EST)

971125 Andrew Jamieson wrote: 
> is it possible to have lynx download a file in the background,
> as well as save it automatically? If I try run lynx in the background
> it will not continue unless it is able to display its tty output,
> and even then I need to be there at the end in order to tell lynx that yes,
> I want to save the file to disk and with which file name.

basically, No.
people have recommended  wget  for this kind of thing (i haven't tried it):
get it from  ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/ .

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