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Re: LYNX-DEV command line invocation & searchpart.
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Michael Warner |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV command line invocation & searchpart. |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Aug 1997 23:59:39 -0700 (PDT) |
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
> lynx http://host:port/path?name=value
>
> But what I find is that lynx complains with an error mesage:
>
> http://host:port/path: No such file or directory
>
> No error happens if I leave out the '?name=value' part, but
> I need to provide this information so my script will work
> properly.
>
> I've tried placing the URL in quotes like this:
>
> lynx "http://host:port/path?name=value"
>
> but still get the same error. If you have any answers, I'm happy
> to hear them.
When I use a start URL with a '?' in it, I escape it with a backslash,
thus - http://host/path\?name=value - and it seems to work.
This is on Digital Unix 4.0, using a tcsh shell, lynx version
2.7.1ac-0.38 currently (but it's been that way since 2.6 or whenever
it was I started compiling my own).
If anyone knows how to avoid the necessity, I'd also be happy
to learn, since I keep forgetting to escape the '?' and then waste
time cursing the fates until I remember. Happened just yesterday, in
fact.
--
Michael Warner
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