Re: LYNX-DEV downloading docs to local directory

[Filip M Gieszczykiewicz]

You (David Combs) wrote:
> The program FTP has a command, "LCD", meaning "LOCAL change directory", which
> changes the "default" for where to write-files-to.
> The (sun?  bsd?) program TIP (which I use to connect/dialin to netcom.com)
> has a similar command (via tilde-excape).
> Such a command would be VERY useful in lynx, since if I want
> to download a bunch of files from one www-site, and another
> bunch from another site -- often the names are similar (readme, for
> instance).  Having to type in pathname each time to different
> directory is a pain and also easily forgotten.
[zap]

Greetings. Let me expand on this. If Fote or someone else who both
understands and knows "portability" either writes or includes in
some generic file-handling routines, it will not only make adding
the above simple but will also allow the various patches (ok, mine)
to be more user-friendly. I don't want to write some code to create
a directory and then find out it wipes out someone's account on 
AIX or Solaris (it hurts to just say that... AIn't uniX)...

Maybe some GNU library could be stripped down and included. I don't
think it would make a big difference size-wise (except static?) It's
worth a few KB.

Take care.
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