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Re: LYNX-DEV Rendering
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Duncan Hill |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Rendering |
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Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:08:10 +0400 (GMT-4) |
On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote:
> Lynx does not have the "raw" anything in memory, ever. When you
> fetch the source, to display it Lynx must *render* it (as text/plain) into
> an HText structure. Lynx is *not* a file viewer like more, less or most.
> Lynx can save input streams to disk, as it does for ones which will be
> passed via a spawn to a helper app. But it does not save text/html or
> text/plain to disk (except for 'd'ownloads, for which you will be passing
> the disk copy to a "help app" selected from the download menu, not
> displaying it with Lynx).
Ah. *goes and bangs head on nearest wall* Ok, so I did miss something
fundemental. Thanks muchly, all is clear now.
Duncan Hill
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