lynx dump

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At 03:15 PM 10/17/00 -0700, you wrote:
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>\_ In the past, I have run the following in a crontab:
>\_ 
>\_ lynx -dump http:/<URL OF PAGE> | mail -s "My Subject" me
>\_ 
>\_ On the command line everything works as expected, however,
>\_ running it in cron, it chokes. Complains about my terminal
>\_ not supporting something or another.
>
>It doesn't like the term setting cron sets up for you.
>
>Try lieing to the shell in crontab:
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>* * * * * (export term=vt100; lynx -dump ... | mail -s ...)
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>YMMV.
>
>Or try another tool like curl or wget.
>
>David
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