downloading various files. x y z ok; .muttrc "file name can't start with a dot". HUH?

Very, very strange.

Here I am downloading from my isp (www.panix.com) via
my "shell account" there (unix -- well, actually
net-bsd)
down to *my* computer (a Sun), and from my computer
I'm just going down through the index.html, downloading
file after file.

   (Yeah, I could have tarred.bz2 them all up and
"automated"
     it, so to speak, but for these few I'm just doing it 
     "by hand", doing a "d" on each
one.)

Anyway, on .muttrc, I get this message telling me that I
can't download a file whose name begins with a dot.

I have never before seen such a message.


(No, I haven't tryed to duplicate what happened --
the fact that it happened once -- heck, the fact
that such an error-msg even exists is worry enough!)


Any idea what's going on?



Thanks!

David




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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, David Combs wrote:

> Very, very strange.
>
> Here I am downloading from my isp (www.panix.com) via
> my "shell account" there (unix -- well,
actually net-bsd)
> down to *my* computer (a Sun), and from my computer
> I'm just going down through the index.html,
downloading
> file after file.
>
>   (Yeah, I could have tarred.bz2 them all up and
"automated"
>     it, so to speak, but for these few I'm just doing
it
>     "by hand", doing a "d" on each
one.)
>
> Anyway, on .muttrc, I get this message telling me that
I
> can't download a file whose name begins with a dot.
>
> I have never before seen such a message.

it's configurable (and has been in lynx for a while - a
quick check shows 
it mentioned in 2.8.3dev.1 in 1999).  In lynx.cfg that's
"no_dot_files",
which also corresponds to a restriction (command-line
option).  Normally
the default for this is compiled in via userdefs.h as
"TRUE".

>
> (No, I haven't tryed to duplicate what happened --
> the fact that it happened once -- heck, the fact
> that such an error-msg even exists is worry enough!)
>
>
> Any idea what's going on?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> David
>
>
>
>
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