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>.
It sounds as if you view'd the file and then print'd the display.
You have to instead simply download the file without trying to display it.
> The program did not compile, and I've lost some time before
> discovering that the long lines are broken in a most straightforward
> manner:
>
> ,----
> | ;;; ispell.el --- Interface to International Ispell Versions 3.1 and 3.2
> |
> | ;; Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, I
> | nc.
> `----
>
> That is, "Inc." has produced an uncommented "nc" etc.
>
> How can I avoid such a disservice in the future?
>
> --
> Sergei
>
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