Re: lynx-dev help on EXTERNAL

[jaydeep desai]

>> EXTERNAL:test:wget %s:TRUE
>
>This needs to be:
>EXTERNAL:ftp:wget %s:TRUE
>EXTERNAL:http:wget %s:TRUE
>or whatever URL type that you wish to retrieve with the external
>program. You may want to add a "&" after the %s to allow downloading in
>the background.
>                            Doug
>

Thanks, my problem was solved by changing the names of URL to http and 
ftp.
It appears that lynx checks for url of current link with url in EXTERNAL 
statement, any executes corrosponding command, if match is found.

However I was misguided(?) by following lines regarding url names in 
lynx.cfg:

# 3) To allow for new URLs to be used through lynx.
#         URLs can be made up such as mymail: to spawn desired applications
#         via the external command.
#
# EXTERNAL:<url>:<command> %s:<norestriction>
#
# <url> Any given URL.  This can be normal ones like ftp or http or it
# can be one made up like mymail.

What do these lines mean? What is "made-up URL"?

-j.m.desai

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