LYNX-DEV: re doing "d" vs "clicking on a link"

[David Combs]

On " http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5.html#perl5003
"
I note that if you try to download a file (a "solaris package")
via clicking on the link to it (which has always worked for
me on other sites), it LOOKS like it is downloading (the
byte-odometer spins like crazy), but when done (and the
byte count IS correct), it never asks you "save file",
and when you look at disk, nothing there.

But works fine with simple "d" command -- byte odometer spins
just as before, but when done it DOES end up on that
page where I choose what to do with the file, eg save
to disk.

I have read lots of stuff in the group about using "d",
but today is the FIRST time I ever had to use it as
a COMMAND.  It would before always ASK me whether
I WANTED to download (an eg .gz file).


What version?  Here:

{netcom14:278} testlynx -version     

Lynx Version 2.6FM
(c)1996 GNU General Public License
<URL:http://lynx.browser.org/>
 

but actually this is wcheung's version here
at netcom.com:


gotten via:

{netcom14:280} alias testlynx
/u13/wcheung/bin/lynxtest -show_cursor -vikeys -cache=60 lynx_bookmarks.html
{netcom14:281} ls -l /u13/wcheung/bin/lynxtest
-rwxr-xr-x  1 wcheung    393096 Jan 25 10:59 /u13/wcheung/bin/lynxtest
{netcom14:282} 



ie, from yesterday somewhere.

I am NOT complaining, just notifying.

But one thing: how is the (novice) user to KNOW what's happening?
Certainly LYNX knows, because it DOES "download" the file (the
counter spins), and it knows that it is NOT going to ask what
to DO with the file.  Maybe it could say something, eg "use d".

Now that I think more about it, having written all this, looks
more like a bug than a feature...  in this evidently new
test version...

Hope this helps someone somehow...
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