On Thu, 13 May 2010, gobnat wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to dump web pages to text files, but without any line
wrapping. I have tried -width=<large number> but it seems to wrap at
around 990 characters (and -width=0, defaults to 80).
Is there some way to dump a file without applying any line wrapping
(other than that dictated by the html) with lynx? If not, how do I
request it as a new feature? (if 990 is a magic number then a bigger
magic number would also be fine)
It is a compiled-in limit.
There are several cases which use this limit, but the most common one is
that formatted lines are stored in locally-managed memory chunks.
Increasing the limit at compile-time is (assuming that the chunk-size is
much larger than the linesize-limit) relatively straightforward, but
changing the memory scheme would not be.
A dump uses the same formatting logic as would be used for the screen
layout, taking the formatted lines and translating underlining, etc.
(There are also buffers with fixed-size, but they're not as important in
the dump).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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