Re: how lynx processes downloads?

The reason is, as I just discovered, wget does not allow you to create a 
filename  like a browser might.
Instead wget downloads the url and with dropbox that is a long series of 
characters that is quite a mess in the end.



On Wed, 14 May 2025, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 2025, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> The second idea, it is indeed in an email, might be the solution.
>> Can I type links instead of weget..which I have not used before?
>
> You can certainly do that, but why use a browser if a specialised
> downloader works (and I have no idea if links does this different
> from lynx).
>
> wget does not have any user interface to speak of, it just
> downloads the URL given, then immediately exits back to pine.
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
> -- 
> 15:41⎜<Lo-lan-do:#fusionforge> Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-)
>