Re: how lynx processes downloads?

Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> Tue, 13 May 2025 23:38:54 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Will certainly keep these options in mind.
For the moment though, Links as in a chain, worked exactly as desired. 
faster too, at least here at shellworld.
I still have not even located where wget placed what it created lol.
  Best,
Karen



On Wed, 14 May 2025, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 2025, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> Instead wget downloads the url and with dropbox that is a long series of
>> characters that is quite a mess in the end.
>
> Uh, just rename the file afterwards?
>
>> The reason is, as I just discovered, wget does not allow you to create a
>> filename  like a browser might.
>
> You can also use:
>
> wget -O filename
>
> (that is dash and uppercase O)
>
> Or:
>
> curl -o filename
>
> (that is dash and lowercase o)
>
> Enjoy,
> //mirabilos
> -- 
>>> Why don't you use JavaScript? I also don't like enabling JavaScript in
>> Because I use lynx as browser.
> +1
> 	-- Octavio Alvarez, me and ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ (Mario Lang) on debian-devel
>