Zitat von Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 01:31:07PM +0200, Arne Kowallik wrote:
> > 
> > PS: (from the man page:)
> >     "If the argument is only '-', then Lynx expects to receive  
> >      the arguments from the standard input."
> >
> >     But: "cat options.txt | bin/lynx -" failed without any output.
> >     Does anybody know why?
> 
> Sounds like an error or omission in the manpage.  Lynx first looks for
> the options that tell what to do with the standard input.  It needs
> the "-stdin" option to tell it to read an html file as input.  I'm
> not sure what's in "options.txt" though.

"options.txt" is a file with command line options, 
e.g. "-auth=user:pass". 
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Arne





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