Re: how lynx processes downloads?

The file in question is a zip archive.
Nothing is going to be  printed as it were.  In fact because of the 
Dropbox link cover, I am unsure what wget is finding at all.
The beauty, for me personally, of changing the browser used to  links the 
change is that I get a simple question asking if I want to o download the 
file, then the option to change the filename..end of story.



On Tue, 13 May 2025, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

> At 2025-05-13T21:48:50-0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> wget doesn't interactively prompt for a file name, but does support an
> option to designate the output file name.
>
> wget(1):
>     -O file
>     --output-document=file
>         The documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but
>         all will be concatenated together and written to file.  If - is
>         used as file, documents will be printed to standard output,
>         disabling link conversion.  (Use ./- to print to a file
>         literally named -.)
>
>         Use of -O is not intended to mean simply "use the name file
>         instead of the one in the URL;" rather, it is analogous to
>         shell redirection: wget -O file http://foo is intended to work
>         like wget -O - http://foo > file; file will be truncated
>         immediately, and all downloaded content will be written there.
> [further caveats snipped]
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>