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Re: LYNX-DEV Rendering


From: Duncan Hill
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Rendering
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:08:10 +0400 (GMT-4)

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote:

>       Lynx does not have the "raw" anything in memory, ever.  When you
> fetch the source, to display it Lynx must *render* it (as text/plain) into
> an HText structure.  Lynx is *not* a file viewer like more, less or most.
> Lynx can save input streams to disk, as it does for ones which will be
> passed via a spawn to a helper app.  But it does not save text/html or
> text/plain to disk (except for 'd'ownloads, for which you will be passing
> the disk copy to a "help app" selected from the download menu, not
> displaying it with Lynx).

Ah.  *goes and bangs head on nearest wall*  Ok, so I did miss something 
fundemental.  Thanks muchly, all is clear now.


Duncan Hill
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