Re: LYNX-DEV Download problems with LYNX for Win95

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Wayne Buttles wrote:

> If I remember correctly...
> Win32 Lynx opens files for print as binary because it has no idea what you
> want to happen to them.  Some people use special filters or use the print
> feature to shove data to an application.

How files passed to a PRINTER are formatted is different from the original
question.  Lynx always has to regenerate the contents of the temp file
from its memory structure of the rendered doc, so newlines are completely
under our control.  (I think it should use the system's convention in that
case, but I am not using it on Win/DOS so my opinion doesn't really
count.)

Files passed to a DOWNLOADER or VIEWER, or dumped to stdout (with -source
or, for [most?] non-HTML, also for -dump) are different in that the data
gets written with whatever convention the document or server has.  LF,
CRLF, and CR are all possible.  Does CRLF (try www.microsoft.com) become
CRCRLF with lynx -source on Windows?  If yes, I think that's bad.


    Klaus



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