The message below from Rick Dyson
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>Environment:
> $ Lynx -version
> Lynx Version 2.8.3rel.1 (23 Apr 2000)
>
> Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other
> contributors.
> Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
> See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information.
>
> OpenVMS platform (note this problem has been reported to me with lots
> of versions of Lynx back to v2.7.x and I have confirmed it on Unix
> platforms too.
>
>Greetings!
>
> I have found that if a URL includes a tilde "~" character in some
>specific URLs (I have not tested for all combinations) the download does
>not take place. The following error is presented on the display:
>
>Alert!: Unable to access document.
>
> This is easily repeatable.
>
> For example, this FTP protocol example always fails:
>
>$ lynx ftp://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~dyson/gd-1_8_1-vms.zip
>Can't Access `ftp://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~dyson/gd-1_8_1-vms.zip'
>Alert!: Unable to access document.
>
> I suspect the code assumes the "~username" is invalid syntax and
>either drops the "~" or just quits before attempting to get the file
>from the remote FTP server. This is a perfectly valid and functional URL
>that should be allowable.
>
>Regards,
>Rick
>--
>Richard L. Dyson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> _ _ _____ http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~dyson/
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