Re: [Lynx-dev] error decompressing temporary file?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:40:14PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Actually this gets more interesting.
> After I posted this, I went back into our dreamhost shell structure.
> there lynx options menu also uses all, which was the case with
> shellworld before  I changed it.
> however they are using an older edition of lynx,
> also we have an older edition here, that Ken keeps in case we have
> an issue like his one.
> I could log into paypal using this, so am wondering about  his
> latest edition of  lynx ?
> Makes no sense that it would start suddenly as it has however, we
> have been using this one for a while I believe.

It's likely the particular data returned by the server rather than lynx itself.

> last number is 15 or 16, I have to be looking at the page, where as
> the dreamhost one is 5 and the lynx.old one here is 7.
> I can only get in with one one now if I change the preferred
> encoding to compress, which is not saved regardless.
> Karen

You should be able to configure lynx to save that setting, using

PREFERRED_ENCODING:GZIP

in your lynx.cfg file (there are comments at the top of the system lynx.cfg
file which describe how to setup a private lynx.cfg file).

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