Re: lynx-dev LYNX: need to change lynx-LOCAL "screen width"

[Leonid Pauzner]

11-Feb-99 22:09 David Combs wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 09:25:33PM -0600, Mike Castle wrote:
>> Amazingly enough David Combs said:
>> > However, when I want to p(rint) to a file some interesting
>> > thing and email it to a friend, THEIR machine is usually
>> > a pc, used to 80-wide stuff.
>>
>> A simpler solution might be:
[...]
>> Then, your script will run the commands:
>>
>> lynx -dump -width=80 -nolist $1 | mail ${addresslist}
>>
>> Where $1 was, of course, the URL lynx passed to lynx_helper.sh when you
>> pressed '.' and ${addresslist} was filled when you did "read addresslist"
>> in your Bourne shell script.
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Cranking up eg perl, and another lynx, on a time-shared
> machine such as netcom.com's, seems like a lot of overhead
> (and time) for an often loaded computer.

Well, if Mike Castle's idea looks too complicated for you
I suggest you another solution: send URL to your friend instead,
hopefilly he will be smart enough to read the page himself.

> But if someone has turn-key example of something LIKE this,
> I'd give it a try.

> Thanks!

> David