OT: Lynx, Linux, and file downloads

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Easier than that. Just type 'd' instead of pressing <enter> on
the link.


On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> While you shouldn't put .gz extensions in your mime.types as binary
> files, you could put in tar.gz, and that should fix your problem.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:15:47PM -0500, Luke Davis wrote:
> > Probably a "duh" situation.
> > I did a google search, but didn't find anything.  Think I may have solved
> > this on one system last year, but forget how.
> >
> > A new lynx install on Debian Woody (stable), can not properly handle
> > binary file downloads.
> > For example, if I go to an URL containing a tar.gz file, instead of
> > seeing:
> >
> > Application/gzip d)ownload or c)ancel
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > "/tmp/tYRd4q/L6434-10TMP.gz" may be a binary file.  See it anyway?
> >
> > /etc/mime.types advises against using it to specify types for compression
> > schemes, and in trying to use it for that, it made no difference.
> >
> > How do I convinse lynx (v2.8.4rel1, by the way) to treete these as files
> > to be saved, not files to be sent through less?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Luke
> >
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