Re: lynx-dev Avoiding line breaks while downloading gz

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In a recent note, Sergei Pokrovsky said:

> Date: 20 Sep 2000 18:04:22 +0700
> 
>   TED> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:06:12PM +0700, Sergei Pokrovsky wrote:
>   >> Yesterday I've had some unpleasant experience with lynx after having
>   >> downloaded a program: <ftp://kdstevens.com/pub/stevens/ispell.el.gz>.
> 
>   TED> It sounds as if you view'd the file and then print'd the
>   TED> display.  You have to instead simply download the file without
>   TED> trying to display it.
>  
> Yes.  How can I download a file without (or after) trying to display
> it?
> 
(G)o to the URL of the directory, ftp://kdstevens.com/pub/stevens/
and press (D)ownload on the line of the filename.  If there's no
directory in the path, or if the ISP forbids directory browsing,
it's much harder.

-- gil
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