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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:24:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To:        <legg@iastate.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Lynx 2.8.3rel.1 related
Message-ID:  <20011016212249.T7576-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1011016173854.22274B-100000@isua1.iastate.edu>

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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 legg@iastate.edu wrote:

> (This may have a simple answer, but I am not incredibly familiar with
> lynx, but certainly others have seen this.  Most lynx FAQ's are dead links
> though :<   )
>
> I use lynx 2.8.3rel.1 When I download a binary, it saves the file to /tmp
> and then when done downloading it copies the file to the home directory
> withing /usr.
>
> This is a problem because /tmp only has 100MB of space (shared with root I
> believe).  Binaries of significant size will not be downloaded.  How can I
> have it temp to a different location, ( ~/tmp would be great) or something
> comparable?


Hi Timothy,

Have you tried:

env LYNX_TEMP_SPACE=/preferred_location

If that works, you should be able to set that environment variable in your
.cshrc or .profile file.

Dru


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