Re: lynx-dev Win32 docs patch (was: Lynx and downloading files)

[Leonid Pauzner]

20-Apr-99 13:00 Don Adaway wrote:

> As the user mentioned above may I make a comment?  The problem was self-
> inflicted.  My original intention was to ensure that downloaded files
> arrived in a directory of my choice.  I had discovered that files were
> being downloaded to the working directory.  This was \lynx by default
> and because this directory contains the all-important Lynx binaries I
> preferred that they go elsewhere.  Accordingly I changed the working
> directory, but this had the effect that cp.exe (in the \lynx directory)

a working directory and a PATH - two big differences.

> was no longer on the path and another program called cp.exe (in the
> path) was being executed.  This would not have happened had I understood
> the significance of the working directory, the path, and the existence
> of the SAVE_SPACE variable in the behaviour of Lynx.

> The only place where the existence of the SAVE_SPACE variable is
> mentioned is in the lynx.cfg file itself; none of the help files mention
> it that I can find.  I feel that mention of the possible interaction
> between working directory, path and SAVE_SPACE should appear somewhere;
> possibly comment lines in lynx.cfg would do the trick.  It's all obvious
> when you know, but then perhaps I'm the only person stupid enough to
> have had this problem.

> --
> Don      chervil @ freeuk . com