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Re: lynx-dev Scripting LYNX to follow links
From: |
Ron Todd |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Scripting LYNX to follow links |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Jul 1998 10:21:05 -0400 |
Collin Forbes wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Ron Todd wrote:
>
> > For instance, I can go to our home page with
> > lynx http://www.ksa1.com
> > and then interactively command
> > <tab><tab><tab><tab><enter>p<enter><enter>Q
> > to go to the fifth link, bring that page up, and print it to the
> > default file name and quit.
>
> Why can't you do something like the following?
>
> lynx -dump -nolist http://world.std.com/~ksag1/client.html > client.html
>
Thanks, but that doesn't solve my problem. I want the generic
capability of being able to navigate web pages (and fill in forms)
from a script without knowing the underlying URL of a link apriori,
as you did in your counter-example.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ron Todd
address@hidden
Re: lynx-dev Scripting LYNX to follow links, T.E.Dickey, 1998/07/07