Re: lynx-dev Why do I have to press 'z' after accessing an FTP link?

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Malcolm Boekhoff wrote:

> When I access the first of the links below (www.sendmail.org) (to
> download the source of sendmail), the transfer succeeds and the status
> line shows "Data Transfer Complete", however I have to press 'z' to
> get to the "save to disk" screen. Why?

You're using cygwin - perhaps that's related.  I recall reading someone's
problem a while back where there were problems with the external utilities
(but don't recall exactly what).  It works fine on Solaris and Linux.
Perhaps the problem would show up in the trace file (lynx -trace).

> 
>  See the RELEASE_NOTES for complete details and other changes.
> 
>  The release is available from:
> 
>  [1]ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.11.3.tar.gz
>  [2]ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.11.3.tar.Z
>  [3]ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.11.3.tar.sig
> 
>  with MD5 signatures:
> fa841497507b59f388bf59f0e14592 sendmail.8.11.3.tar.gz
> 937a256f742c39bc8f22ba89c4c98a sendmail.8.11.3.tar.Z
> c72e7381203a02238994d89c00c0b8 sendmail.8.11.3.tar.sig
> 
> 
> 
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