Re: LYNX-DEV Forked image DL?

[Al Gilman]

to follow up on what Tobias Brox said:

> I'm more and more frequently using lynx in favour of other
> browsers because of it's efficiency. The more I use it and
> study it, the more I love and adore it.

> Well, enough bragging for this time :) Is it possible to add
> something like: "if (!fork()) return; " when starting to
> download images and other stuff that requires an external app?

> I think this little advancement would have been of great value,
> compared to efficiency.

Yes, this is a consistent desire of power-users.

There is a post back there somewhere from Tom Zerucha which is
why I believe it is not so simple to achieve.

You might want to look in the code to see if one could use Wget
as an external downloader as opposed to forking another Lynx.

-- Al Gilman

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