Re: LYNX-DEV http://lynx.browser.org/ download file problems

[Hynek Med]

On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Apr 1997 address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > I am just learning to use lynx and I am still feeling my way around
> > I am currently trying to download files that can be stored on our server as 
> > a miny mirror site 
> > as a mini mirror site for the larger and more popular files
> > 
> > My problem is that 
> > 
> >         :when I download some files they get to the end where they should
> >         be saved but the save to disc prompt dosn't come up and the file is 
> > lost
> > 
> > this is getting very frustrating
> 
> Without more details it is hard to guess what is going wrong.
> Does this happen only with soem kinds of files? (for example
> binary files; compressed files; file from ftp URLs)

Something like this happened to a friend of mine just a while ago. He has
downloaded a long file, but the save prompt didn't appear. The reason for
this was that he was out of disk space on /tmp.. No warning was displayed
- or perhaps disappeared too quickly. I think he was using lynx version
2.7. 

Hynek

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Hynek Med, address@hidden



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