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Re: lynx-dev Lynx tries to use a weird "cp" copy program whendownloading files.
- To: Doug Kaufman <dkaufman at rahul dot net>
- Subject: Re: lynx-dev Lynx tries to use a weird "cp" copy program whendownloading files.
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:10:07 -0500
- CC: Lynx Developer News Group <lynx-dev at sig dot net>, Cygwin News Group <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102200718430.45579-100000@yellow.rahul.net>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
Doug Kaufman wrote:
>
> 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".
Please note: It is advised to halt all Cygwin processes before updating
Cygwin. You will certainly run into problems with having Cygwin
processes executing while trying to update them.
Earnie.
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