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Re: lynx-dev Downloading large files via ftp


From: Fiber McGee
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Downloading large files via ftp
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:08:07 -0600

The message below from Gisli Ottarsson
<address@hidden> was forwarded by the
list maintainer.

>>>>> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 01:37:37 -0600 (CST), Klaus Weide said:

  KW> On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Fiber McGee [sic] wrote:

  >> >   1) sending the 680Mb twice over the network, from my home machine to
  >> >      the linux machine and back.  This took over 15 minutes during
  >> >      which lynx appeared to have hung.

  KW> You gotta admit that 680Mb AND your remote-mount setup is an
  KW> unusual situation... Lynx deals with it, but isn't exactly
  KW> optimized for this situation.

Fortunately, a 680Mb file size is certainly rare.  (Auto) NFS mounted
home directories probably are not.  My home directory can only reside
on one machine and through the course of my work I must work on many
different machines.

  >> >To add insult to injury, after the copy operation, lynx failed to
  >> >remove the temporary file, L12120-9789TMP.bin.

  KW> It would have removed it eventually, when exiting at the latest.

It did.

  KW> If you need to do this frequently, consider using a mechanism different
  KW> from the default builtin "Save to disk" implementation (which isn't
  KW> optimal for your situation).  A DOWNLOADER in lynx.cfg which does a
  KW> mv, probably after prompting for a name, should do the trick.

Thanks for the tip.  I could see how this would do the trick.  Is
there any reason that this shouldn't be the default thought?

Anyway, thanks again for your wonderful work.

Best regards.

  Gisli



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Gisli Ottarsson, PhD
Mechanical Dynamics Inc.            address@hidden
2301 Commonwealth Blvd.             Tel: 1-734-913-2550
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