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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > !DSPAM:40eaf1fc202431415618682! > > > > > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ------------ Output from gpg ------------ > gpg: Signature made Tue Jul 6 15:11:05 2004 EDT using DSA key ID 79725320 > gpg: Good signature from "Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>" > gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! > gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. > Primary key fingerprint: 83D5 78B6 289E 6441 BF21 4A30 EECF 73FD 7972 5320 > > -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (75% of Full) My home page is at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
