Re: LYNX-DEV file downloading

[Jason F. McBrayer]

[Cc: removed]
>>>>> "DW" == David Woolley <address@hidden> writes:

>> Has anyone thought of incorporating what programs like ncftp
>> already have?  Example, if the file someone is downloading already
>> exists (but wasn't completed fully), downloaded it from wherever
>> they stopped - instead of downloading the entire thing again.

[Why that won't work with Lynx]

DW> Trying to be Swiss army knives is one of the things that causes
DW> bloat in commercial browsers; the Unix philosophy has always been
DW> to have a choice of tools, so you can choose a file downloader for
DW> downloading and a web browser for browsing.

The obvious solution, of course, is to use Lynx 2.8 and use ncftp or
wget as the external ftp downloader; both of these support ftp resume
(and wget supports http resume).  This way you can locate files with
Lynx and also have the features of wget or ncftp when you go to
download them.  The Unix philosophy:  many small tools working
together. 

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