Re: LYNX-DEV passing a url to a program

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

From: Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza <address@hidden>

> The point in my question is that I wouldn't like to download the file
> to my computer. The idea was to pass the URL to the command so that it
> could access the file in the remote site. This is because I don't need
> the entire file but only information contained in  its begin.

And the point of my answer is that lynx has two options - download the
entire file, or download the HEAD info (name, last update, size, and
a few other goodies) .  That's all you get.

Doesn't rpm download the entire file to extract pieces
anyways?  Unless it's using a non-ftp, non-gopher, non-http protocol to
access the URL I don't see how it couldn't.  However, perhaps it downloads
it to a pipe.  In that case, I am unable to help...

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