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Re: lynx-dev calling lynx from xterm
From: |
Stef Caunter |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev calling lynx from xterm |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:28:18 -0500 (EST) |
Two things occur to me.
Environment variables HAVE to be exported to be seen by
lynx.
Have you tried -dump to see if the lines don't get
truncated?
lynx -dump www.someurl.com > output.txt
__Stef
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote:
> i currently use lynx in a sript as follows:
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> lynx -cmd_script=myscript -term=vt100 www.someurl.com > output.txt
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> i have to run this script in an xterm that is large enough such that
> the COLUMNS and LINES environment variables are 163 and 80 resopectively
> to aquire all of the site content and pipe it to the output.txt file.
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> i wish to call this script from crontab. i tried changing the sript
> as follows:
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> COLUMNS=163 LINES=80 lynx -cmd_script=myscript -term=vt100 www.someurl.
> com > output.txt
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> but it is as if the aforementioned environment variables are set
> to very small values as most of the data is missing from the piped
> output file (is like using lynx w/ a very small xterm window.
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> how may i run lynx and spoof the COLUMNS and LINES environment variable
> values?
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> by the way, i have tried the -width=163 lynx parameter but this does
> not seem to help me.
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- lynx-dev calling lynx from xterm, Harland Christofferson, 2004/02/03
- Re: lynx-dev calling lynx from xterm, Henry Nelson, 2004/02/03
- Re: lynx-dev calling lynx from xterm, Harland Christofferson, 2004/02/03
- Re: lynx-dev calling lynx from xterm,
Stef Caunter <=
- Re: lynx-dev calling lynx from xterm, Thomas Dickey, 2004/02/03
- Re: lynx-dev calling lynx from xterm, Harland Christofferson, 2004/02/03
- Re: lynx-dev calling lynx from xterm, Harland Christofferson, 2004/02/03