🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Atsushi Nakagawa wrote:

> > : 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.
> >
> > 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.

Hit D to download the file once you've highlighted the link to it {in
lynx}.

DaZZa