lynx-dev Re: Is Lynx the Browser I'm Looking For...

[Al Gilman]

Hi, Mark.

If you can formulate the search as an URL, you can use
lynx in batch with the -dump option and you will get
a print-formatted page of the search results in a file.

However, for non-interactive use you should look at
other options such as wget, too.

If you want to fill in the search form interactively
and then have a one-button action which executes the
query and disposes the results to a file, Lynx will not
do that for you directly and you may want to build on
some other techbase to create a program that will.

Al

Please send further Lynx queries to <address@hidden>.

to follow up on what Mark A. Miller said:
> From address@hidden  Wed Jul 15 12:14:56 1998
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 12:15:40 -0400
> From: "Mark A. Miller" <address@hidden>
> Organization: The Jackson Laboratory
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I)
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Is Lynx the Browser I'm Looking For...

> 
> Wednesday, July 15th
> 
> Al -  I'm wanting to do a search against the WWW (any search engine) and
> 
>         instead of having the records that satisfy my query displayed
> can these
>         records be  immediately stored in a flat file on my desktop.
> 
>         Is Lynx the browser I'm looking for...
> 
> Thanks,
>     Sam Garten (e-mail: address@hidden)
> 
> P.S. was Margaret Sanger related to Fredrick Sanger, the English
>        scientist that won the Nobel Prize twice... Sanger did his work
> on
>        determining the amino acid sequence of insulin in the 1940's. He
>        didn't serve in World War II - he was a 'conscientious objector'.
> 
>        How could anyone possible be against that war???
> 
> 
> 
>