[R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
Hi, It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script? I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to R. Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc. It is possible? How? Thanks Ronaldo -- Acalme-se, são somente 0's e 1's -- Prof. Ronaldo Reis Júnior | .''`. UNIMONTES/Depto. Biologia Geral/Lab. de Ecologia | : :' : Campus Universitário Prof. Darcy Ribeiro, Vila Mauricéia | `. `'` CP: 126, CEP: 39401-089, Montes Claros - MG - Brasil | `- Fone: (38) 3229-8187 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ppgcb.unimontes.br/ | ICQ#: 5692561 | LinuxUser#: 205366 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote: It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script? I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to R. Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc. It is possible? How? ?system BTW, I found that using things directly in R is _much_ slower than creating a batch file and then running it. For example, I had a directory with misnamed mp3 files, and I wanted to use R to rename and copy them to another directory. I tried to use file.copy, but it took too much time. Writing a batch file and then running it was much faster. Alberto Monteiro __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
Hi, see ?system -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40 S 49° 16' 22 O On 24/08/07, Ronaldo Reis Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script? I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to R. Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc. It is possible? How? Thanks Ronaldo -- Acalme-se, são somente 0's e 1's -- Prof. Ronaldo Reis Júnior | .''`. UNIMONTES/Depto. Biologia Geral/Lab. de Ecologia | : :' : Campus Universitário Prof. Darcy Ribeiro, Vila Mauricéia | `. `'` CP: 126, CEP: 39401-089, Montes Claros - MG - Brasil | `- Fone: (38) 3229-8187 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ppgcb.unimontes.br/ | ICQ#: 5692561 | LinuxUser#: 205366 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
On 8/24/2007 6:58 AM, Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote: Hi, It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script? I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to R. Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc. The details and available functions depend on the platform, but you want to look at ?system, ?shell, and/or ?shell.exec. (These all exist in Windows; on Unix-alikes, you probably won't have the latter two.) Duncan Murdoch __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
On 8/24/2007 8:05 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote: It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script? I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to R. Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc. It is possible? How? ?system BTW, I found that using things directly in R is _much_ slower than creating a batch file and then running it. For example, I had a directory with misnamed mp3 files, and I wanted to use R to rename and copy them to another directory. I tried to use file.copy, but it took too much time. Writing a batch file and then running it was much faster. Since you say batch file I assume you're on Windows. If that's the case, then file.rename() can rename and move a file to a new directory, as long as it's on the same drive. That should be as quick as a batch file. Duncan Murdoch __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
What OS was that on? On 8/24/07, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote: It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script? I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to R. Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc. It is possible? How? ?system BTW, I found that using things directly in R is _much_ slower than creating a batch file and then running it. For example, I had a directory with misnamed mp3 files, and I wanted to use R to rename and copy them to another directory. I tried to use file.copy, but it took too much time. Writing a batch file and then running it was much faster. Alberto Monteiro __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: What OS was that on? I suppose you are asking me :-) BTW, I found that using things directly in R is _much_ slower than creating a batch file and then running it. For example, I had a directory with misnamed mp3 files, and I wanted to use R to rename and copy them to another directory. I tried to use file.copy, but it took too much time. Writing a batch file and then running it was much faster. I was Windows, of course. In Linux, I would use a one-line script with find, mv, sed, etc. If you want to test, do this: # create subdiretory source_dir with 800 files # (for simplicity's sake, all files with decent names: no # spaces, no non-ascii characters, etc) # create empty subdiretory dest1_dir # create empty subdiretory dest2_dir # arr - list.files(source_dir) t0 - Sys.time() # 1st test: slow for (x in arr) file.copy(paste(source_dir/, x, sep=), dest1_dir) t1 - Sys.time() t1 - t0 # 2nd test: fast sink(batch_file.bat) for (x in arr) cat(copy source_dir\\, x, dest2_dir\\\n, sep=) sink() system(batch_file.bat) t2 - Sys.time() t2 - t1 Hmmm Interesting... I did this test with 47 files, and I got: t1 - t0 Time difference of 11.439 secs t2 - t1 Time difference of 11.969 secs Oops... Alberto Monteiro __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:32:00AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 6:58 AM, Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote:
Hi,
It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script?
I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to R.
Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc.
The details and available functions depend on the platform, but you want
to look at ?system, ?shell, and/or ?shell.exec. (These all exist in
Windows; on Unix-alikes, you probably won't have the latter two.)
Don't forget pipes.
R's ability to consistently work on connections that may be local
files, remotes files, program output, ... is a true treasure (and
thanks and credits to, I believe, Brian Ripley to make it so).
Eg you can do this
OD - read.table(pipe(links -dump http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ |
awk '/tar.gz/ {print $3, $4}'), header=FALSE, col.names=c(file, date))
to get files and dates of files on CRAN.
As I recall, this also works on that other operating system, provided
you do all the legwork of installing other tools, setting PATHs etc
to provide what works out of the box on the supposedly unfriendlier OS.
Dirk
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Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
On 8/24/2007 10:33 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:32:00AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 6:58 AM, Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote:
Hi,
It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script?
I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to R.
Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc.
The details and available functions depend on the platform, but you want
to look at ?system, ?shell, and/or ?shell.exec. (These all exist in
Windows; on Unix-alikes, you probably won't have the latter two.)
Don't forget pipes.
R's ability to consistently work on connections that may be local
files, remotes files, program output, ... is a true treasure (and
thanks and credits to, I believe, Brian Ripley to make it so).
Eg you can do this
OD - read.table(pipe(links -dump http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ |
awk '/tar.gz/ {print $3, $4}'), header=FALSE, col.names=c(file, date))
to get files and dates of files on CRAN.
As I recall, this also works on that other operating system, provided
you do all the legwork of installing other tools, setting PATHs etc
to provide what works out of the box on the supposedly unfriendlier OS.
The pipe command you list doesn't work in Windows. I'd guess this is
because the pipe syntax | within the command is unsupported: it tries
to execute links, with the rest of the line passed as arguments. But
I haven't traced through to check on this.
Duncan Murdoch
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Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:57:46AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 10:33 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:32:00AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 6:58 AM, Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote:
Hi,
It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script?
I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to
R. Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc.
The details and available functions depend on the platform, but you want
to look at ?system, ?shell, and/or ?shell.exec. (These all exist in
Windows; on Unix-alikes, you probably won't have the latter two.)
Don't forget pipes. R's ability to consistently work on connections that
may be local
files, remotes files, program output, ... is a true treasure (and
thanks and credits to, I believe, Brian Ripley to make it so).
Eg you can do this OD - read.table(pipe(links -dump
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ | awk '/tar.gz/ {print $3, $4}'),
header=FALSE, col.names=c(file, date))
to get files and dates of files on CRAN. As I recall, this also works on
that other operating system, provided
you do all the legwork of installing other tools, setting PATHs etc
to provide what works out of the box on the supposedly unfriendlier OS.
The pipe command you list doesn't work in Windows. I'd guess this is
because the pipe syntax | within the command is unsupported: it tries to
execute links, with the rest of the line passed as arguments. But I
haven't traced through to check on this.
Hm, wishful thinking must have gotten the better of me then. Sorry for
spreading misinformation about the capabilities of that other OS.
Dirk
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Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
On 8/24/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:32:00AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 6:58 AM, Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote:
Hi,
It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script?
I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to R.
Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc.
The details and available functions depend on the platform, but you want
to look at ?system, ?shell, and/or ?shell.exec. (These all exist in
Windows; on Unix-alikes, you probably won't have the latter two.)
Don't forget pipes.
R's ability to consistently work on connections that may be local
files, remotes files, program output, ... is a true treasure (and
thanks and credits to, I believe, Brian Ripley to make it so).
Eg you can do this
OD - read.table(pipe(links -dump http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ |
awk '/tar.gz/ {print $3, $4}'), header=FALSE, col.names=c(file, date))
to get files and dates of files on CRAN.
As I recall, this also works on that other operating system, provided
you do all the legwork of installing other tools, setting PATHs etc
to provide what works out of the box on the supposedly unfriendlier OS.
Or commonly we can just do it entirely within R. In the example discussed
we read in the lines, grep out the tar.gz lines, split each line into
fields and
select the desired columns, delete the junk and reformat it all into a
data frame:
Lines - readLines(http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/;)
tar.gz.Lines - grep(tar.gz, Lines, value = TRUE)
raw.fields - do.call(rbind, strsplit(tar.gz.Lines, /td))[, 2:3]
mat - apply(raw.fields, 2, gsub, pattern = /a|.*\| *$, replacement =
)
DF - data.frame(file = mat[,1],
+ date = strptime(mat[,2], %d-%b-%Y %H:%M),
+ stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
head(DF)
filedate
1 ADaCGH_1.3-1.tar.gz 2007-05-14 12:04:00
2 AIS_1.0.tar.gz 2007-07-31 16:38:00
3 AMORE_0.2-10.tar.gz 2007-04-11 10:17:00
4 ARES_1.2-2.tar.gz 2007-03-19 20:53:00
5 AcceptanceSampling_0.1-1.tar.gz 2007-07-07 20:46:00
6 AdaptFit_0.2-1.tar.gz 2007-08-04 09:51:00
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Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
On 8/24/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:57:46AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 10:33 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:32:00AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 6:58 AM, Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote:
Hi,
It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script?
I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to
R. Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc.
The details and available functions depend on the platform, but you want
to look at ?system, ?shell, and/or ?shell.exec. (These all exist in
Windows; on Unix-alikes, you probably won't have the latter two.)
Don't forget pipes. R's ability to consistently work on connections that
may be local
files, remotes files, program output, ... is a true treasure (and
thanks and credits to, I believe, Brian Ripley to make it so).
Eg you can do this OD - read.table(pipe(links -dump
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ | awk '/tar.gz/ {print $3, $4}'),
header=FALSE, col.names=c(file, date))
to get files and dates of files on CRAN. As I recall, this also works on
that other operating system, provided
you do all the legwork of installing other tools, setting PATHs etc
to provide what works out of the box on the supposedly unfriendlier OS.
The pipe command you list doesn't work in Windows. I'd guess this is
because the pipe syntax | within the command is unsupported: it tries to
execute links, with the rest of the line passed as arguments. But I
haven't traced through to check on this.
Hm, wishful thinking must have gotten the better of me then. Sorry for
spreading misinformation about the capabilities of that other OS.
This works for me on Windows:
tab - read.table(pipe(lynx --nolist --dump
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ | findstr tar.gz), as.is = TRUE)
head(tab[3:5])
V3 V4V5
1 ADaCGH_1.3-1.tar.gz 14-May-2007 12:04
2 AIS_1.0.tar.gz 31-Jul-2007 16:38
3 AMORE_0.2-10.tar.gz 11-Apr-2007 10:17
4 ARES_1.2-2.tar.gz 19-Mar-2007 20:53
5 AcceptanceSampling_0.1-1.tar.gz 07-Jul-2007 20:46
6 AdaptFit_0.2-1.tar.gz 04-Aug-2007 09:51
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Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
On 8/24/2007 1:05 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On 8/24/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:57:46AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 10:33 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:32:00AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 6:58 AM, Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote:
Hi,
It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script?
I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to
R. Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc.
The details and available functions depend on the platform, but you want
to look at ?system, ?shell, and/or ?shell.exec. (These all exist in
Windows; on Unix-alikes, you probably won't have the latter two.)
Don't forget pipes. R's ability to consistently work on connections that
may be local
files, remotes files, program output, ... is a true treasure (and
thanks and credits to, I believe, Brian Ripley to make it so).
Eg you can do this OD - read.table(pipe(links -dump
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ | awk '/tar.gz/ {print $3, $4}'),
header=FALSE, col.names=c(file, date))
to get files and dates of files on CRAN. As I recall, this also works on
that other operating system, provided
you do all the legwork of installing other tools, setting PATHs etc
to provide what works out of the box on the supposedly unfriendlier OS.
The pipe command you list doesn't work in Windows. I'd guess this is
because the pipe syntax | within the command is unsupported: it tries to
execute links, with the rest of the line passed as arguments. But I
haven't traced through to check on this.
Hm, wishful thinking must have gotten the better of me then. Sorry for
spreading misinformation about the capabilities of that other OS.
This works for me on Windows:
tab - read.table(pipe(lynx --nolist --dump
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ | findstr tar.gz), as.is = TRUE)
Which R version is that? It doesn't work for me in Rgui, though it does
in Rterm, both R-devel versions.
Duncan Murdoch
head(tab[3:5])
V3 V4V5
1 ADaCGH_1.3-1.tar.gz 14-May-2007 12:04
2 AIS_1.0.tar.gz 31-Jul-2007 16:38
3 AMORE_0.2-10.tar.gz 11-Apr-2007 10:17
4 ARES_1.2-2.tar.gz 19-Mar-2007 20:53
5 AcceptanceSampling_0.1-1.tar.gz 07-Jul-2007 20:46
6 AdaptFit_0.2-1.tar.gz 04-Aug-2007 09:51
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Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
On 8/24/2007 11:14 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:57:46AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 10:33 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:32:00AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 6:58 AM, Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote:
Hi,
It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script?
I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside to
R. Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc.
The details and available functions depend on the platform, but you want
to look at ?system, ?shell, and/or ?shell.exec. (These all exist in
Windows; on Unix-alikes, you probably won't have the latter two.)
Don't forget pipes. R's ability to consistently work on connections that
may be local
files, remotes files, program output, ... is a true treasure (and
thanks and credits to, I believe, Brian Ripley to make it so).
Eg you can do this OD - read.table(pipe(links -dump
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ | awk '/tar.gz/ {print $3, $4}'),
header=FALSE, col.names=c(file, date))
to get files and dates of files on CRAN. As I recall, this also works on
that other operating system, provided
you do all the legwork of installing other tools, setting PATHs etc
to provide what works out of the box on the supposedly unfriendlier OS.
The pipe command you list doesn't work in Windows. I'd guess this is
because the pipe syntax | within the command is unsupported: it tries to
execute links, with the rest of the line passed as arguments. But I
haven't traced through to check on this.
Hm, wishful thinking must have gotten the better of me then. Sorry for
spreading misinformation about the capabilities of that other OS.
Actually, the OS is fine, it's R that's not. I'll fix it for 2.6.0.
Duncan Murdoch
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Re: [R] It is possible to use a Shell command inside a R script?
On 8/24/07, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/24/2007 1:05 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On 8/24/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:57:46AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 10:33 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:32:00AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 8/24/2007 6:58 AM, Ronaldo Reis Junior wrote:
Hi,
It is possible to use a shell command inside a R script?
I'm write a R script and I like to put somes shell commands inside
to
R. Somethink like: convert fig01.png fig01.xpm or sed ..., etc.
The details and available functions depend on the platform, but you
want
to look at ?system, ?shell, and/or ?shell.exec. (These all exist in
Windows; on Unix-alikes, you probably won't have the latter two.)
Don't forget pipes. R's ability to consistently work on connections that
may be local
files, remotes files, program output, ... is a true treasure (and
thanks and credits to, I believe, Brian Ripley to make it so).
Eg you can do this OD - read.table(pipe(links -dump
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ | awk '/tar.gz/ {print $3,
$4}'),
header=FALSE, col.names=c(file, date))
to get files and dates of files on CRAN. As I recall, this also works
on
that other operating system, provided
you do all the legwork of installing other tools, setting PATHs etc
to provide what works out of the box on the supposedly unfriendlier OS.
The pipe command you list doesn't work in Windows. I'd guess this is
because the pipe syntax | within the command is unsupported: it tries
to
execute links, with the rest of the line passed as arguments. But I
haven't traced through to check on this.
Hm, wishful thinking must have gotten the better of me then. Sorry for
spreading misinformation about the capabilities of that other OS.
This works for me on Windows:
tab - read.table(pipe(lynx --nolist --dump
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ | findstr tar.gz), as.is = TRUE)
Which R version is that? It doesn't work for me in Rgui, though it does
in Rterm, both R-devel versions.
I am using Rgui
R.version.string
[1] R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
on Windows XP. lynx --version gives:
Lynx Version 2.8.5rel.1 (04 Feb 2004)
libwww-FM 2.14FM, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7d-dev
Compiled by Borland C++ (Feb 5 2004 17:35:58).
Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
See http://lynx.isc.org/ and the online help for more information.
See http://www.moxienet.com/lynx/ for information about SSL for Lynx.
See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL.
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