On Apr 1, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
On an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze, I use lynx to
download cd-images from cdimage.debian.org. I have no problem
getting CD ".iso" images.
But when I try downloading the MD5SUMS file from the same
directory, I get a few lines of HTML pre-pended to the downloaded
file.
I guess "downloading" the MD5SUMS file is a bit wrong
but pressing a "P" key (you might see P)rint in a screen)
might solve your problem.
I hope this helps you. Thanks for your interest in lynx.
For this particular application, that would work.
But in general, using P is a fragile way to "download" a file. It
expands tabs, and interprets other formatting stuff. If what I want
is a bit-for-bit copy of what's there on the server, that's not useful.
Maybe the right solution is to have "d" download in binary (bit-for-
bit) mode and "D" download assuming I really want to use it as part of
a clone of the source website. I.e. "D" would do what "d" does now
(including recognizing real binary files and not prepending) and "d"
would never alter the file being downloaded. Or, if you prefer, it
could be reversed. "d" remains unchanged from its present behavior,
and "D" does the new bit-for-bit download.
Rick
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