Re: lynx-dev local download over telnet

[Philip Webb]

001026 address@hidden wrote:
> In a recent note, Saad Alghuwainem said:
>> I use lynx on a remote system through telnet. How can I configure lynx
>> to download files to my local PC instead of the remote system's disk?
> For this you need a utility such as kermit, xmodem, or zmodem.

Kermit is excellent: get 3.15 from  www.columbia.edu/kermit/ .

> This can be automated with entries in either lynx.cfg or ~/.mailcap.

in  lynx.cfg  uncomment the line (remove the `#'):
#DOWNLOADER:Use Kermit to download to the terminal:kermit -i -s %s -a %s:TRUE

> Alas, interest and support for these utilities is dwindling.

MS-Kermit (for DOS) was last updated c 1998,
& is controlling this access to the U Toronto CHASS system;
C-Kermit (for UNIX) dates from January 2000:
C-Kermit seems to work quite well on my (under development) Linux OS,
tho' it lacks some of the terminal-emulation features of MS-Kermit,
which it leaves to Linux & X-Window to define.

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