Re: lynx-dev problem with saving pages in lynx

[Klaus Weide]

On Sun, 5 Sep 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A friend of mine uses lynx and sice a few days he have a problem 
> with saving pages.
> When he want to save a document and press the p or d he get an 
> error:
> allert
> unaible access to document..
> 
> Before he could safe this pages.
> The menu of save to local file etc doesn't come on the screen.

That sounds like a problem with generating temporary files.

Lynx needs to have enough space to create temporary files for
creating those "menus".  If the LYNX_TEMP_SPACE or TMPDIR
environment variables or the default built into lynx point to
an invalid directory, lynx cannot create the auxiliary pages.
The same may happen if the specification is valid but a
temporary file cannot be written, for example because the
disk is full or read-only.

For non-Unix systems, especially DOS and Windows, the environment
variable names may be different (or additional ones may be checked).

It would help to know what version your friend is using, an on
what operating system.  And of course what changed between then
(when it worked) and now.

   Klaus