Downloading with lynx or w3m, how to download as is, without gratuitous gzip

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

Thomas Mueller skrev:
> 
> I don't use lynx (text-mode web browser) much, but have run into a problem that I never had before.
> Lynx, and also w3m, download what are supposed to be text files and then I see the gzip'ed version on the hard drive.
> 
> Lynx used to download files as is!
> 
> I looked through "man lynx", also /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg, and couldn't figure how to disable the annoying, gratuitous gzip.
> 
> Mozilla Seamonkey and Firefox can download straight without altering.
> 
> My previous experience was that Lynx was trustworthy and would download files as is.

For w3m you can try to set 'auto_uncompress 1' in ~/.w3m/config.

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Herbert