Two things occur to me. Environment variables HAVE to be exported to be seen by lynx.
Have you tried -dump to see if the lines don't get truncated? lynx -dump www.someurl.com > output.txt __Stef On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > i currently use lynx in a sript as follows: > > lynx -cmd_script=myscript -term=vt100 www.someurl.com > output.txt > > i have to run this script in an xterm that is large enough such that > the COLUMNS and LINES environment variables are 163 and 80 resopectively > to aquire all of the site content and pipe it to the output.txt file. > > > i wish to call this script from crontab. i tried changing the sript > as follows: > > COLUMNS=163 LINES=80 lynx -cmd_script=myscript -term=vt100 www.someurl. > com > output.txt > > but it is as if the aforementioned environment variables are set > to very small values as most of the data is missing from the piped > output file (is like using lynx w/ a very small xterm window. > > how may i run lynx and spoof the COLUMNS and LINES environment variable > values? > > by the way, i have tried the -width=163 lynx parameter but this does > not seem to help me. > > > > > > > > > > > > > ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
