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Re: Lynx -dump problems



On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:

> Basically, all lynx has to do is use the -dump option, call the page
> and the script does the rest.
> 
> However, the script does not work.

I had a similar problem with a perl script.  In my case it was solved so:

# need this to correct problem with lynx wanting temporary files in ~/tmp
$ENV{LYNX_TEMP_SPACE}="/tmp";

Apparently, some versions of lynx are hardwired to put temporary files in
~/tmp (which rarely exists) instead of /tmp.

hth

-- 
Patrick Wiseman
pwiseman@mindspring.com
Linux user #17943


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