Re: LYNX-DEV DownLoading in background

[Tom Zerucha]

On Tue, 18 Feb 1997 address@hidden wrote:

You omit any description of your hardware or OS.  If your OS can't
multitask, nothing will work, if it will, you can always get your OS to
run multiple instances of lynx:

>   Is it possible to download a document in background using lynx ?

control-z, bg will work on most unix systems.  I think there are similar
variants with VMS.
 
>   If not, could you please add this feature in the next version 
>   of lynx .

I suppose it could do a fork() call, but what about when the download was
done?

>   I have to download some documents which are very large. I cannot
>   just sit in front of my computer for hours for waiting them to 
>   be downloaded.

You might also get away with:

lynx -source w.x.y/z >doc.html &

>   So if you can suggest some alternative way of doing it, I'll be
>   really very grateful to you.

I have a command-line-to-stdout browser called "upget" which I use as an
alternate.  You can use FTP for those sites that have both http and ftp.

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