Re: [Lynx-dev] Where does -dump output go?

[Donn Terry]

Thanks.
After much more fussing, I found that the program I was executing wasn't
really Lynx, but a wrapper exe (called Lynx) that executes the real Lynx
that's in a sub-directory, and apparently arranges stdout to be an
ephemeral window and (optionally) provides a splash screen. That seems to
be the package that PortableApp creates. I found that out by a
combination of looking at files and guessing what probably is going on.  I
get what I wanted (and expected) if I execute the "real" one in the
sub-directory.

The PortableApp wrapper documentation says nothing about that wrapper, and
there doesn't appear to be (short of some real guessing) any way to disable
that "feature". See https://portableapps.com/support/ .  (Other than that,
PortableApp seems a pretty decent idea.)

Donn

P.S. This may be ancient, but if you want to do the less is more thing...,
and speaking of cat try the command
   cat "food in cans"
Truth...

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 3:25 PM Travis Siegel <tsiegel@softcon.com> wrote:

> Or, if you want it to pause after each screen, without any additional
> parameters, try
>
> more instead of cat, and to those purists that claim less is better, let
> me remind those that less and more are the same executable on most linux
> systems, and only act differently because the program checks to see
> which one was actually called.
>
> (thus the statement that less is more))
>
> <shrug>
>
> Cat will work for text that is shorter than a full screen, otherwise you
> loose content, more is for everything else.
>
> Also, head can be used to see just the first few lines of a file, to
> verify the content is what you expected, while tail gives you access to
> the last few lines of the content, each is good depending on the
> circumstances.
>
> (sorry for the slight sidetrack, just trying to make sure all options
> are known. :))
>
> On 2/11/2021 6:05 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Normally stdout on Linux.  To get it to a file, try cat | lynx -dump
> >> outfile
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Donn Terry wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to use LynxPortable (I hope this list works for that) to dump
> >> rendered html.  This is on Windows 10.
> >>
> >> LynxPortable appears to be working correctly, but does one strange
> >> thing.
> >> I'm doing this both from a cmd window and a cygwin window, with the same
> >> result.
> >>
> >> Instead of directing the output to local stdout it directs it to a new
> >> window that appears for a fraction of a second (spewing some text)
> >> and then
> >> disappears. Using shell redirection doesn't help.
> >> lynxPortable -help does the same thing.  (The splash screen also
> >> comes up,
> >> and stays up slightly longer than, the text window.)
> >>
> >> I didn't see any command line options to redirect to regular stdout or a
> >> file.
> >>
> >> Ideas?
> >>
> >> Donn
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