Re: lynx-dev EXTERNAL:ftp

[Jason F. McBrayer]

>>>>> "JP" == John Poltorak <address@hidden> writes:

JP> Does LYNX have any problem passing paths with drive letters to
JP> external programs? 

No.

JP> I just tried to invoke WGET to retrieve a file and dump it in
e> /incoming, but this would not work. /incoming works OK, but this is
JP> actually c:\incoming. I would prefer to store things on a different
JP> drive.
 
You can't use colons in EXTERNAL, PRINTER, DOWNLOADER, UPLOADER,
etc. specifications.  Well, actually, you can; you must backslashify
them.  For c:\incoming, you must say:

EXTERNAL:http:start "Saving location" /c /f wget -P c\:/incoming -nd %s:TRUE

or

EXTERNAL:http:start "Saving location" /c /f wget -P c\:\\incoming -nd %s:TRUE

since if you use backslashes in a path you must also backslashify them.

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