Re: lynx-dev Problem with externals/Lynx 2.8.1pre.8 (04 Oct 1998)

[Michael Warner]

On Fri, Oct 09, 1998, John Lim Eng Hooi <address@hidden> wrote:

        [...]

> I seem to be having a problem with externals (in fact I've
> never gotten externals to work at all since it was first
> implemented). When I press the '.' key, nothing happens.

        [...]

> The default defined EXTERNAL is there, along with one to just
> dump the URL to a file:
> 
> EXTERNAL:wget:wget %s &:TRUE
           ^^^^
> EXTERNAL:urls:echo %s >> ~/urls.txt:TRUE
           ^^^^
        [...]

I didn't see any one else answer this, but I've gotten
behind on my list reading....

I believe the problem is in your lynx.cfg EXTERNAL
definitions.  If they actually are as given above, try
changing the second field to the actual protocol(?)
identifier that begins the URLs you want to use the external
program on, thus:

EXTERNAL:ftp:wget %s &:TRUE
         ^^^
and

EXTERNAL:http:echo %s >> ~/urls.txt:TRUE
         ^^^^
I think that will probably do the trick.

-- 
Michael Warner 
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