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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 2-6RP-color-Mb005
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David Combs |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 2-6RP-color-Mb005 |
Date: |
Wed, 6 Nov 1996 05:43:12 -0800 |
> From address@hidden Thu Oct 24 05:33:58 1996
> From: Al Gilman <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 2-6RP-color-Mb005
> To: address@hidden (JOHNLIM)
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:04:52 -0400 (EDT)
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> In-Reply-To: <address@hidden> from "JOHNLIM" at Oct 24, 96 01:53:00 pm
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> From: address@hidden (JOHNLIM)
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> ... how do I
> properly download a patch from the archives ? I have to use 'p' since the
> archives return HTML code...
>
> Here's the trick: Don't use p)rint to capture the file. Instead,
> back up so that the page you want is the current link, and
> d)ownload it. This does not render the html. You can find a
> link to the page via the <BACKSPACE> command to view the history
> file, or make a bookmark, if the page is one you went to via g)o
> and not by following a link. Downloading patches, even 'though
> they are text, is necessary to avoid tab-to-space conversions
> that break the patching process.
>
> Al Gilman
> http://www.access.digex.net/~asgilman/lynx/FAQ
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All right -- now, someone (??) add this info to the
"tricks and techniques" user-doc...
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