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Lynx tries to use a weird "cp" copy program when downloading files.
- To: "Lynx Developer News Group" <lynx-dev at sig dot net>,"Cygwin News Group" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Lynx tries to use a weird "cp" copy program when downloading files.
- From: "Malcolm Boekhoff" <Malcolm dot Boekhoff at actfs dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:52:59 -0000
Problem:
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I can't get lynx to download anything using the default "save to disk" option.
Scenario:
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If I type "lynx http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe" and then use the default "save to disk" option,
the file appears to get downloaded, but then Lynx tries to use a weird "cp" copy program to copy
the temporary file to "setup.exe". The copy program it is trying to spawn appears to be:
/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin/cp
and obviously, I don't have this path on my system.
The status line shows:
LYNXDOWNLOAD://Method=-1/File=/tmp/L224-1TMP.bin/SugFile=/tmp/setup.exe
when the "Download option" numbered [1] is selected.
Question:
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Is there a way to tell lynx to use "/usr/bin/cp"? Is there a way to stop lynx looking for stuff
with the weird path "/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin"?
System Information
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I am using Cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-4.0 USERNAME 1.1.8(0.34/3/2) 2001-01-31 10:08 i686 unknown) on NT4 and I
downloaded lynx from the link on the http://www.cygwin.com main page.
Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Tue Feb 20 09:56:22 2001
WinNT Ver 4.0 build 1381 Service Pack 4
CYGWIN = `ntsec case:ignorecase'
Cygwin DLL version info:
dll major: 1001
dll minor: 8
dll epoch: 19
dll bad signal mask: 19005
dll old termios: 5
dll malloc env: 28
api major: 0
api minor: 34
shared data: 3
dll identifier: cygwin1
mount registry: 2
cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
cygwin registry name: Cygwin
program options name: Program Options
cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
cygdrive default prefix:
build date: Wed Jan 31 10:08:38 EST 2001
shared id: cygwin1S3
Log file:
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The (relevant) output from the Cygwin "strace" utility is as follows, if you search it for
"setup.exe" you will find the relevant bits:
...
486 210519873 [main] lynx 224 spawn_guts: spawn_guts null_app_name 0 (d:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe, d:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
"/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin/cp /tmp/L224-1TMP.bin /tmp/setup.exe")
3080 210522953 [main] lynx 224 spawn_guts: 200 = spawn_guts (d:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe, d:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
"/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin/cp /tmp/L224-1TMP.bin /tmp/setup.exe")
...
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