Re: Downloading with Lynx on the WWW

[joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn)]

<Sorry if this has been posted more than once. My newsreader is acting up.>

 >Another big THANK YOU to Joe Kohn for SSII -Apr 95.  Most of my working
 >knowledge of the www and lynx is from Joe's articles.  I tried Joe's
 >article on downloading with Lynx.  My .mime.types file is exactly as
 >Joe published, so I tried Lynx with the URL for grind.isca

My pleasure, Steve. But, do my eyes deceive me?

Is it really possible that the administrator of the Grind archive learned
from Shareware Solutions II how to use lynx to download files from his own
site?

You might not realize it, Steve, but that's one heckuva compliment.

If the Shareware Solutions II newsletter can teach the Grind administrator
something about using the Internet, imagine what Shareware Solutions II can
teach *you*?

 >So.... How does one download using lynx and preserve the file name?
 >At least FTP or ncftp and sz have that advantage :)

I imagine that the lynx programming team might say, "that's not a bug,
that's a feature." In any case, the only way I know of to download via lynx
AND maintain the actual file name is to use a 2 step process...save the
download to a file on disk on your host system, and then use sz to download
it to your Apple II.

Is there any advantage to using that method, other than preserving the file
name?

Yes. sz supports both wildcard and batch downloading. So, if you download
10 .BXY files to your home directory, you can download them all to your
Apple II with just one command: sz *BXY

Joe Kohn
Publisher, Shareware Solutions II

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