On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:28:04PM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question that hopefully someone will know the answer. I want to
> use the command:
>
> lynx -dump http://some.address.com/file.gz > file_result
>
> my question is, will it always be the case the file "file_result" is the
> decompressed version of "file.gz" or is there some configuration option
> that actually manages this, and if the answer is no, will it be the case
> that file_result and file.gz will be the same file, and in this case does
> it make sense to set -width=X to a big number?
"-dump" interprets the file, so file_result and file.gz (allowing for
compression) won't be the same thing. Setting -width is useful if you
want to format the result with more/most paragraphs on a single line.
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