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Re: lynx-dev Avoiding line breaks while downloading gz
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pg |
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Re: lynx-dev Avoiding line breaks while downloading gz |
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000 05:20:34 -0600 (MDT) |
In a recent note, Sergei Pokrovsky said:
> Date: 20 Sep 2000 18:04:22 +0700
>
> TED> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:06:12PM +0700, Sergei Pokrovsky wrote:
> >> Yesterday I've had some unpleasant experience with lynx after having
> >> downloaded a program: <ftp://kdstevens.com/pub/stevens/ispell.el.gz>.
>
> TED> It sounds as if you view'd the file and then print'd the
> TED> display. You have to instead simply download the file without
> TED> trying to display it.
>
> Yes. How can I download a file without (or after) trying to display
> it?
>
(G)o to the URL of the directory, ftp://kdstevens.com/pub/stevens/
and press (D)ownload on the line of the filename. If there's no
directory in the path, or if the ISP forbids directory browsing,
it's much harder.
-- gil
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