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Re: lynx-dev Save binary file (download to disk) in version


From: dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Save binary file (download to disk) in version
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 05:45:17 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> >         I have a gripe about the new feature of providing a hyperlink to 
> > the Lynx help file in the "Lynx Download Options" page.  This page comes 
> > up whenever a user chooses a link to a binary file and chooses to download 
> > it.  I'm used to being able to simply press "Enter" to select save to disk 
> > (as it's the first option), while now I have to press the down arrow first 
> > to get off the help hyperlink, and get to the save line.  This is 
> fixed in dev25 
>  
> > annoying, but I could get used to it.  What's really driving me nuts, is 
> > that if I accidentally choose the link to the help file, when I press the 
> > left arrow to go back, I wind up back at the original page that the binary 
> > file was listed on, and I've lost the option to save it to disk, thus 
> > forcing me to re-download it, and wait while it (possibly slowly) 
> > transfers over the network. 
>  
> BTW, why Lynx got file from the net every time we re-download it, 
> it should be already available from local cache...? 
> Any reason not to do it? 
no - just work to implement the cache & make it work properly.
(there's the associated issues of how to force the cache, too).he, too).he, 
too).he, too).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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