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Re: lynx in ip-up: no terminal



On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 04:34:54PM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Justin Penney wrote:
> 
> > lynx is nearly always installed and used by default in many scripts. (e.g.
> > dhs.org update scripts etc.)
> 
> It's just that lynx is a viewer. wget is a page fetch-program and for that
> reason "might" be better adapted for the task.

lynx has only just started doing this. I filed a bug report this morning.
"lynx -dump" should not need a terminal. It is convenient to dump
the rendered output to stdout; wget just retrieves and does not render.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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