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      links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser
      
      links [options] URL

Contents 1 DESCRIPTION 2 OPTIONS 3 NAVIGATION KEYS 4 EDITING KEYS 5 FILES 6 PLATFORMS 7 BUGS 8 LICENSE 9 RELATED 10 CATEGORY

DESCRIPTION

      links  is  a text mode WWW browser with ncurses interface, supporting colors, correct table rendering, background
      downloading, menu driven configuration interface and slim code.
 
      Frames are supported. You can have different file formats associated with external viewers. mailto:  and  telnet:
      are supported via external clients.
 
      links can handle local (file://) or remote (http:// or ftp://) URLs.

OPTIONS

      Most options can be set in the user interface or config file, so usually you do not need to care about them.
 
      -g     Run  Links  in  graphics  mode. If not given, Links will run in text mode.  Running in graphics mode means
             that Links will probe all compiled-in graphics devices and run on the first found. If  none  found,  links
             will not run in text mode. This option works only if --enable-graphics was given to ./configure.
 
      -mode <parameter>
             Pass  a parameter to the graphics driver. On SVGAlib, this is widthxheightxdepth, (where depth is 16, 256,
             32K, 64K, 16M or 16M32) and defines the graphics mode, on X the format is  widthxheight  and  defines  the
             window size.
 
      -async-dns <0>/<1>
             Asynchronous DNS resolver on(1)/off(0).
 
      -max-connections <max>
             Maximum number of concurrent connections.  (default: 10)
 
      -max-connections-to-host <max>
             Maximum number of concurrent connection to a given host.  (default: 2)
 
      -retries <retry>
             Number of retries.  (default: 3)
 
      -receive-timeout <sec>
             Timeout on receive.  (default: 120)
 
      -unrestartable-receive-timeout <sec>
             Timeout on non restartable connections.  (default: 600)
 
      -format-cache-size <num>
             Number of formatted document pages cached.  (default: 5)
 
      -memory-cache-size <Kbytes>
             Cache memory in Kilobytes.  (default: 1024)
 
      -http-proxy <host:port>
             Host and port number of the HTTP proxy, or blank.  (default: blank)
 
      -ftp-proxy <host:port>
             Host and port number of the FTP proxy, or blank.  (default: blank)
 
      -download-dir <path>
             Default download directory.  (default: actual dir)
 
      -assume-codepage <codepage>
             Use the given codepage when the webpage did not specify its codepage. (default: ISO 8859-1)
 
      -anonymous
             Restrict  links so that it can run on an anonymous account.  No local file browsing. No downloads. Execut-
             ing of viewers is allowed, but user can't add or modify entries in association table.
 
      -no-connect
             Runs links as a separate instance - instead of connecting to existing instance.
 
      -version
             Prints the links version number and exit.
 
      -help  Printf a help screen
 
      More options can be seen with links -h

NAVIGATION KEYS

      The keys you may use while navigating are
 
      PGDN   page down
 
      Space  page down
 
      PGUP   page up
 
      b      page up
 
      B      page up
 
      CursorDOWN
             next link/down (text mode), scroll down (graphics mode)
 
      CursorUP
             prev link/up (text mode), up (graphics mode)
 
      ^INS   copy to clipboard
 
      ^C     copy to clipboard (OS/2 only)
 
      INS    scroll up (text mode only)
 
      ^P     scroll up
 
      DEL    scroll down
 
      ^N     scroll down
 
      [      scroll left
 
      ]      scroll right
 
      HOME   home
 
      END    end of page
 
      CursorRIGHT
             enter link/press button (text mode), scroll right (graphics mode)
 
      ENTER  enter link/press button
 
      CursorLEFT
             go back (text mode), scroll left (graphics mode)
 
      d      download link (text mode only)
 
      D      download link (text mode only)
 
      /      search in the page
 
      ?      search back in the page
 
      n      find next match
 
      N      find next match backwards
 
      f      zoom actual frame
 
      F      zoom actual frame
 
      ^R     reload page
 
      g      go to URL
 
      G      edit the current URL and goto the result
 
      s      bookmark manager
 
      S      bookmark manager
 
      q      quit, close window if more windows are open
 
      Q      quit, close window if more windows are open
 
      =      document informations
 
      \      toggle HTML source/rendered view
 
      TAB    next frame (text mode only)
 
      ESC    menu/escape
 
      F9     menu
 
      F10    file menu

EDITING KEYS

      The following keys can be used while editing a line/jumping to a URL:
 
      CursorRIGHT
             move right
 
      CursorLEFT
             move left
 
      HOME   jump at the beginning
 
      ^A     jump at the beginning
 
      END    jump at the end
 
      ^E     jump at the end
 
      ^X     cut to clipboard
 
      ^V     paste from clipboard
 
      ENTER  enter line
 
      BACKSPACE
             delete back character
 
      ^H     delete back character
 
      DEL    delete character
 
      ^D     delete character
 
      ^U     delete from beginning of the line
 
      ^K     delete to the end of the line or delete line (in textarea)
 
      ^W     auto complete line

FILES

      ~/.links/links.cfg
             Per-user configfile, automatically created by links.

PLATFORMS

      links is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2 and BeOS.  Port for
      Win32 is in state of beta testing.

BUGS

      You can't upload large files; it takes _lots_ of memory.
 
      Please report any other bugs you find to Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

LICENSE

      links is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
      License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
      any later version.

RELATED

      lynx(1), w3m(1)

CATEGORY