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Article #476Re: Using lynx... How?
From: Atsushi Nakagawa
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 00:00
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> Atsushi Nakagawa wrote:
> : Hello,
>
> : How do I, using lynx, download a file 'raw' without any post-processing? I
> : want to get lynx to ignore the MIME/type (no sure if the right terminology)
> : and just download the file 'as is' to the destination --without any 'line
> : break adding' and post-processing, and other things it might do.
>
> : Thanks in advance.
>
> Walter Strong wrote:
>
> What kind of file are you trying to download? To avoid problems I
> usually place the cursor over what I want to download and hit "d". This
> gives me no problems with .html, .txt, or binary files.
>
I'm trying to download a .gz file and lynx tries to pass it to gzip for
post-processing. I don't want to post-process because:
A. It's not a proper gzip file, just a file with .gz ending.
B. More importantly, the file is being downloaded to a remote server so
I don't want to decompress there.
--
Atsushi Nakagawa
(s355806@student.uq(no_spam).edu.au) (remove (no_spam) when using)
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