Thanks. but what I am reporting is that after I find the link in Lynx and press d to download the file it doesn't download properly. I've lnly experienced this problem with html.gz files. It shouldn't be necessary to go through a convoluted procedure to get a good file. the d keystroke should do it.
John On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 02:07:37PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If you do something like: > wget -bc --max-redirect=10000 file > And you collected the url by hitting = when you wound up on the link you > wanted to download and checked for the url: statement near bottom of output > and did a mark and cut operation on that url and then pasted that into the > wget command for file you would have wget probably write its output to > wget-log the first time and you could then run wc -l wget-log every so often > and make sure line numbers increase. When they don't increase any longer, > then it's time to do: > tail -3 wget-log to get the file name that was downloaded. > > On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, John J. Boyer wrote: > > >Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:45:24 > >From: John J. Boyer <[email protected]> > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [Lynx-dev] Problem when downloading *.gz files > > > >When I use lynx to download a file with a gz extension and then try to > >uncompres it with gunzip I get garbage. This has happened with html.gz > >files. It does not happen with tar.gz files. If I download the file with > >wget it uncompresses properly. But finding it with Lynx is much more > >convenient. > > > >Thanks, > > > > > > -- -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with disabilities which are available at no cost. _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
