Re: LYNX-DEV lynx -

[David Combs]

Please add this EXAMPLE to that -help page.

> From address@hidden Sat Oct 26 14:10:50 1996
> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:55:10 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Hiram Lester, Jr." <address@hidden>
> 
> On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Sven Guckes wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to use lynx as a filter to produce a text version of a HTML 
> > page.
> > "lynx -help" tells me that I can specify the option "-"
> 
> Well, even after reading Klaus' and Fote's replies, it's still not really
> clear.  Klaus hinted at it when he said that it's not meant to do what you
> want.
> 
> Read carefully the description again:
> 
> >     Options are:
> >         -                receive the arguments from stdin (enclose
> >                          in double-quotes ("-") on VMS)
> 
Please add this EXAMPLE to that -help page:
> Note that it receives the *arguments* from stdin.  This means that
> whatever can appear on the command line can come from stdin.  The
> following will work:
> 
> $ lynx -
> -dump
> http://www.mtsu.edu
>                    <-- press EOF character here (^D for Unix, ^Z for VMS)
> ...
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