Re: [Lynx-dev] Problem when downloading *.gz files

[Jude DaShiell]

If you do something like:
wget -bc --max-redirect=10000 file
And you collected the url by hitting = when you wound up on the link you 
wanted to download and checked for the url: statement near bottom of 
output and did a mark and cut operation on that url and then pasted that 
into the wget command for file you would have wget probably write its 
output to wget-log the first time and you could then run wc -l wget-log 
every so often and make sure line numbers increase.  When they don't 
increase any longer, then it's time to do:
tail -3 wget-log to get the file name that was downloaded.

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:45:24
> From: John J. Boyer <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Lynx-dev] Problem when downloading *.gz files
>
> When I use lynx to download a file with a gz extension and then try to
> uncompres it with gunzip I get garbage. This has happened with html.gz
> files. It does not happen with tar.gz files. If I download the file with
> wget it uncompresses properly. But finding it with Lynx is much more
> convenient.
>
> Thanks,

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