On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, David Arno wrote: > > > >I occasionally download pdf files with lynx, and don't recall > > > >problems with that. Do you have a test url in mind? > > > > > > My money's on spaces in a filename, and an unencoded reference. > > > > that was why I asked, so we can focus on something specific. > Great cheers Walter and Thomas. It was indeed due to spaces. I couldn't provide a > URL as requested as its an intranet website and so inaccessible. But I checked the > files I was trying, then rechecked with filenames with no spaces and it worked just > fine. > > Sorry to waste your time, I should have spotted that myself. Thanks > for the help anyway,
It's not exactly a waste of time. I added some logic in 2.8.4 (which iirc didn't entirely work properly) that (in the current development version) does allow for blanks in a filename. So it's possible that you could make it work with 2.8.5dev.8, for instance. (Someone's sure to point out that it's not standard...) -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
