Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-05 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Tuesday, 03 February 2004, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] victor.com wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:52:26PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: i have several lynx sessions that are being piped to text files, i.e., lynx www.somewebpage.com

passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread Harland Christofferson
i have several lynx sessions that are being piped to text files, i.e., lynx www.somewebpage.com temp.txt. in order to capture the entire web page, i have found that i have to run this from an xterm session w/ the window opened to at least the row/column width of the web page of interest. i

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Harland Christofferson wrote: i have several lynx sessions that are being piped to text files, i.e., lynx www.somewebpage.com temp.txt. in order to capture the entire web page, i have found that i have to run this from an xterm session w/ the window opened to at least the row/column width of

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread Harland Christofferson
If you are doing this as a way to periodically download pages, wget is a much better choice. man wget will show all the options available, from just getting the page, to getting everything needed to view the page, to downloading an entire site. Lynx is really more of an interactive browser.

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread rthoreau
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:52:26PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: i have several lynx sessions that are being piped to text files, i.e., lynx www.somewebpage.com temp.txt. in order to capture the entire web page, i have found that i have to run this from an xterm session w/ the

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Harland Christofferson wrote: i need the _interactivity_ of lynx. i am using the _CMD_SCRIPT option to push information to the server which i am connected. Oh. I don't know what you're trying to do with cmd_script, but it might be possible to do it with wget through creative use of options

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread Harland Christofferson
Why not just use wget instead of lynx, you can set wget up with recursive downloading and set the depth you desire. You can also make a file to have it set to read the proper pages. Something like this: wget -r -1 2 http://your.website.com If you need more information on wget see the man

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread Fiodar Bandarenka
Hi, On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:52:26PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: i have several lynx sessions that are being piped to text files, i.e., lynx www.somewebpage.com temp.txt. in order to capture the entire web page, i have found that i have to run this from an xterm session w/ the

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:52:26PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: i have several lynx sessions that are being piped to text files, i.e., lynx www.somewebpage.com temp.txt. in order to capture the entire web page, i have found that i have to run this from an

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Tuesday, 03 February 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] com wrote: Harland Christofferson wrote: i need the _interactivity_ of lynx. i am using the _CMD_SCRIPT option to push information to the server which i am connected. Oh. I don't know what you're trying to do with

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Tuesday, 03 February 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] com wrote: Harland Christofferson wrote: i need the _interactivity_ of lynx. i am using the _CMD_SCRIPT option to push information to the server which i am connected. Oh. I don't know what you're trying to do with

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread Harland Christofferson
$ COLUMNS=40 LINES=10 lynx www.blam.org -- Be happy! -- okay ... my script now is: COLUMNS=163 LINES=60 lynx -cmd_script=myscript www.blam.org output.txt -- should this still work if i call it in an xterm w/ COLUMNS=80 and LINES=24? the text in output.txt looks as it would if did not

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Tuesday, 3 February 2004, you wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:35:43PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: okay ... my script now is: COLUMNS=163 LINES=60 lynx -cmd_script=myscript www.blam.org output.txt -- should this still work if i call it in an xterm w/ COLUMNS=80 and

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread Fiodar Bandarenka
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 05:01:58PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: At Tuesday, 3 February 2004, you wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:35:43PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: okay ... my script now is: COLUMNS=163 LINES=60 lynx -cmd_script=myscript www.blam.org