Re: lynx-dev change of current download directory?

[Juhana K Kouhia]

I added wget mailing list to the distribution. I'm not in these mailing
lists. Wget people might want search for string "WGET" for reading
comments meant for them too.


>From:  Philip Webb <address@hidden>
>
>980913 Juhana Kouhia wrote: 
>> I didn't find any key for changing the current download directory.
>
>when Lynx asks for a file name, simply enter the full path you want.

Thank you for your reply.


>generally, suggestions for Lynx get implemented
>only when the person suggesting them has the time & skill to do so.

But it would be quite silly if that scheme is followed everytime.
I may have reasonable good suggestions but may not have time or skills
to learn the Lynx's development aspects. Well I don't have time because
I'm working on an audio wave editor, document imaging, and so on --- all
of them will be free as well. If I now have to use time to examine Lynx,
my own interest are not going anywhere.

So, in case somebody else want to take it, please put the above wish to
your wishlist because I actually wanted a change to that "enter the full
path" scheme. So far I quit the lynx and continue in other directory --
quite odd way to do it. Hmm.. please add "make a directory to the current
local directory" and "show current local directory" commands too. Then it
is very easy to save stuff with Lynx.


WGET WGET WGET

>> My other suggestion would be a download the current page
>> with all images and inlines. Such that I may look at that page
>> with Netscape at home with images and all.
>
>you can define a viewer like  xv  to view images with Lynx.

Oh, I'm on MS/Windows at university, using simple terminal program
and thus cannot use X programs.

What I would like to have is that I may save the current page to a
current local directory, tar it, untar at home, and view with
Netscape or whatever in Linux. (I don't have a net access at home.)

Note that I could use Netscape at university and *print* the page "as is"
to the paper. But I don't want to do that. I'm thus looking for exact
alternative to have the page "as is" in electronic format. Netscape
cannot save the page "as is" either.

Note that using wget is no solution. "wget -r -l 1" will download the
images but as well the pages refered from the main page. I have feeling
that it could be more better if wget could download the current page
"as is". Then I could use wget in Lynx to download the current page to the
current local directory "as is".


For Lynx people only: Currently I cannot even save the inlines with Lynx.
Please add a saving possibility to the wishlist. It could be a switch
type system: hide inline links/show inline links. Because otherwise there
might be too many links on the page, making it difficult to move link-by-
link.

Yours,

Juhana