Downloading an url from pine.

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Change the viewer from 'lynx' to 'wget' and you are in business.


On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 4 3 2 3 1
1) wrote:

> Hi all.  Say you're reading a msg and pine lands you on a url.  Instead of
> viewing it, you wanna download the url.  Like if someone points you to
> something that will bring up realplayer directly and you wanna save it to
> a dot ram file.  Normally, I would do this from lynx with a d download,
> but, say if the site isn't up and can't connect, and you have to come back
> later, if you've done this from within a message, you are returned to
> pine.  So, especially if this is a long url, and you get to the point in
> pine where it says, view selected url?  You ;normally hit enter and go
> there, but I'd like to grab it to a file at this moment.
> If you do an uppercase letter A for edit app, I see the viewer command
> but, I believe, the url is cleared out.  Is there a way to retain the url,
> since that's what you want to act upon?  And, if you go this route, what
> would you then add to all that to download the url??  Thanks.  Hope that
> made semse.
>
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