Re: LYNX-DEV command line invocation & searchpart.

[Ismael Cordeiro]

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Nick Russo wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
> > I currently have Lynx 2.6. What I want to do is provide
> > a search part to a URL when have lynx start. 
> <snip> 
> > But what I find is that lynx complains with an error mesage:
> <snip>
> > I've tried placing the URL in quotes like this:
> > lynx "http://host:port/path?name=value";
>
> I had success with the following invocation,
> lynx "http://www.lycos.com/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=nick";
> but I'm using Lynx 2.7.1
> 
> Perhaps an upgrade is all that is necessary.

I don't think it's a version problem. I tried your example, without the
quotes (lynx http://www.lycos.com/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=nick), with lynx
2.6, 2.7, 2.7.1 and 2.7.1/Fotemods and it worked fine with all of them.

Ismael

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