Re: LYNX-DEV back-ground download

[Vomberg Semuel]

On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Nobody wrote:

> > but i'm not asking for background download ! UNIX don't need help with
> > multitesking. all that featury needs to do is to run a sub-proccess,
> > something like "lynx -source <url> >file.name &", and that's all !
> > is it defficult to be done ?
> It isn't specifically difficult, at least not on unix (which is how I do
> an interruptable name lookup, see HTTCP.c and grep for fork).  But it has
> to do with how and where Lynx goes in the code when doing a download.

sorry, but i'm not a Unix programer, or know something about internet
programing. also, i'm not a root here, so can't do anything to change
Lynx source-code.

> The problem is that Lynx doesn't ask for a name until the download is
> complete.  Also, since the download has a progress indicator that would
> have to be sent to /dev/null.  None of this is difficult, but it is
> scattered through different points in the code, some in src and some in
> WWW/Library...

can *you* do it ?


Live long and Prosper
   Semuel Vomberg
      EE student
         Technion, Israel

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