Links in pine messages?

Links in pine messages?

[Steve Holmes]

If I view a message in pine and it has links such as
http://www.mypage.com, I can hit enter and I get asked if I want to view
the link.  I answer yes and all is fine.  But if the link points to an
exact file such as http://www.mypage.com/~user/file1.tar.gz, I go through
the same procedure and the contents of the file get dumpped to my screen
and I can't see any way to capture the binary form and save it.  I can't
for example, "download" the link from within pine like one does in lynx.

I am vaguely aware of mime.types and such but probably don't have a real
good handle on it.  Even if I did, I'm not sure what pine should use to
download the file instead of having lynx come up unconditionally and
display it as if it were text.

Any ideas?

Re: Links in pine messages?

[Geoff Shang]

Hi Steve:

This is one of lyn'x more annoying traits.  The best thing I can think of,
which I'd not thought of before so I thank you for asking and making me
think about it, is to select "edit app" from the view URL menu and put in
wget instead of lynx for such URLs.  That should do the job.  You'll of
course need wget installed.

Geoff.

Re: Links in pine messages?

[Steve Holmes]

Are you speaking of Pine or Lynx? At this point, I don't know where the
"edit app" option is.

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi Steve:
>
> This is one of lyn'x more annoying traits.  The best thing I can think of,
> which I'd not thought of before so I thank you for asking and making me
> think about it, is to select "edit app" from the view URL menu and put in
> wget instead of lynx for such URLs.  That should do the job.  You'll of
> course need wget installed.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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Re: Links in pine messages?

[Geoff Shang]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Are you speaking of Pine or Lynx? At this point, I don't know where the
> "edit app" option is.

This is in pine.  When you click on a URL, you get the four optins:

Y Yes, U Edit URL, N No, A edit App

can't recall if this is something that needs to be enabled in config or
not, but it's definitely there.

Geoff.

Re: Links in pine messages?

[Amanda Lee]

I typically never even bother with editing urls when I click on a link in
pine.  However, have received messages with malformed links in them so guess
defining an editor would be useful.

Amanda Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang@uq.net.au>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: Links in pine messages?


> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > Are you speaking of Pine or Lynx? At this point, I don't know where the
> > "edit app" option is.
>
> This is in pine.  When you click on a URL, you get the four optins:
>
> Y Yes, U Edit URL, N No, A edit App
>
> can't recall if this is something that needs to be enabled in config or
> not, but it's definitely there.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
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Re: Links in pine messages?

[Geoff Shang]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Amanda Lee wrote:

> I typically never even bother with editing urls when I click on a link in
> pine.  However, have received messages with malformed links in them so guess
> defining an editor would be useful.

Nonono, the app isn't what ;you edit the URL with, it's what you view the
URL with.  If you want to edit the URL, pine just brings it up on a line
right there and you edit it that way.

Geoff.

Re: Links in pine messages?

[Steve Holmes]

I tried your suggestion of editing the application line in Pine and that
trick worked great!.  Guess allong I thought there was only a "y" or "n"
answer; didn't realize you could change the app on the fly like that.  I
do recall seeing an option to edit the URL but wget is the ticket with
links to complete files.

Thanks again for the help!

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Geoff Shang wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > Are you speaking of Pine or Lynx? At this point, I don't know where the
> > "edit app" option is.
>
> This is in pine.  When you click on a URL, you get the four optins:
>
> Y Yes, U Edit URL, N No, A edit App
>
> can't recall if this is something that needs to be enabled in config or
> not, but it's definitely there.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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