Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:27:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Kaufman To: Lynx Developer News Group Cc: Cygwin News Group Subject: Re: lynx-dev Lynx tries to use a weird "cp" copy program when downloading files. In-Reply-To: <003001c09b2b$4a448f40$275c100a@actfs.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Malcolm Boekhoff wrote: > I can't get lynx to download anything using the default "save to > disk" option. > ... > 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 This appears to be an old version of lynx, copiled with absolute paths for utilities (an option when compiling). There are two simple fixes. The easiest is to create the directory "/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin", then "ln /bin/cp cp". The other is to download a non-cywin build of a recent Win32 lynx. Links to several of these are on my web site "http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html". You can also compile your own copy from source with cygwin, allowing you to configure it as you like and to include SSL support. I regularly compile lynx with cygwin; it compiles without problems. Lynx source is at "http://lynx.isc.org/" or "ftp://lynx.isc.org". Doug __ Doug Kaufman Internet: dkaufman@rahul.net -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple