Re: lynx-dev suggestion, lynx download

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Klaus Peter Wegge wrote:

> Since about 3 weeks I have trouble to download the lynx-dev mail
> archives. e.g.: http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/mailbox/log98-12
> or the current development sources.
> The connection is closed very soon but the download is
> incomplete. This is obviously a networ problem.
> But in this case the behavior of lynx is not very friendly because
> it doesn't inform the user about the fact, the download is
> incomplete. When the connection is closed, the download menue
> appears immediately, and there is no hint for an incomplete file.
> The user will detect the problem only, if he has the size of the
> file in mind (shown during the download) and it differs from the
> size of the saved file, or unpacking of the file is not posisble.
> I think, there should be an error message on top of the download menue
> which doesn't disappear during a few seconds (long downloads
> are done during coffee breaks ;-() ).
> 
> What's about this idea?

1) What version of lynx were you using, which platform?

2) Did no statusline alert happen, or do you not know (because you were
   not watching all the time)?

3) Are you sure it is a network problem?  Specifically, are you sure you
   had enough space in /tmp (or the temp space in effect)?

(These questions are separate from your suggestion to put some 
note on the download page - that may be a good idea.  But I would
like to understand what kind of error exactly you were/are dealing
with.)

  Klaus