Re: lynx-dev automatic gunzip: how to stop?

[pg]

In a recent note, James Bence said:

> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:30:32 -0700
> 
> software.  The CPAN module is calling 'lynx -source URL' to acquire indexes
> 
> Is there a .lynxrc option to prevent lynx from uncompressing gzip'ped files?
> 
I suppose if you recompiled lynx, setting the path for the gunzip
utility to "/bin/cat", you'd get this effect.  But that's pretty drastic.  :-(

Other people suggest, "forget lynx; use wget (IIRC) instead".

-- gil1