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Re: need some help on lynx



On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:00:54PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> hello all
> 
> this is something i have tried to do but could not.
> 
> typically, every day, i go to google. go to google news. switch to text
> mode. all this is done by way of links provided on the page.
> 
> once in the text mode news, i type in the same query in the space
> provided.
> 
> i wanted to know if i can automate the whole thing or at least the last
> typing a query part of it. may be i can store the query in a text file
> and be done. there is an 's' option in lynx but i did not understand it
> much.

Sites typically use the GET method to post the onctents of forms like
these, which means that the search string you neter is encoded in the
URL.  Just bookmark the page that the query ends up on and you'll be all
set, since lynx will re-request it from google each time you load it.

-rob

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