links(1)

NAME

links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser

SYNOPSIS

links [options] URL

DESCRIPTION

links is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, cor

rect table rendering, background downloading, menu driven config

uration interface and slim code.

Frames are supported. You can have different file formats

associated with external viewers. mailto: and telnet: are sup

ported via external clients.

links can handle local (file://) or remote (http://,

ftp:// or https:// if there's compiled-in SSL support) URLs.

OPTIONS

Most options can be set in the user interface or config

file, so usually you do not need to care about them.

-anonymous

Restrict links so that it can run on an anonymous

account. No local file browsing. No downloads. Executing of

viewers is allowed, but user can't add or modify entries in asso

ciation table.

-assume-codepage <codepage>

Use the given codepage when the webpage did not

specify its codepage. (default: ISO 8859-1)

-async-dns <0>/<1>

Asynchronous DNS resolver on(1)/off(0). Default is

on.

-base-session <number>

Linkses are connecting together, forming sessions

by default. Normally, there's only one session with number 0. In

this way, you can make him to form more sessions at once. See al

so -no-connect option.

-download-dir <path>

Default download directory. (default: actual dir)

-download-utime <0>/<1>

Set time of download files on(1)/off(0). Default is

off.

-dump Write a plain-text version of the given HTML docu

ment to stdout.

-format-cache-size <num>

Number of formatted document pages cached. (de

fault: 5)

-ftp.anonymous-password <password>

Use this as the password for anonymous ftp sites.

-ftp-proxy <host:port>

Host and port number of the FTP proxy, or blank.

(default: blank)

-help Print a help screen.

-http-bugs.http10 <0>/<1>

Turn use of HTTP/1.0 on(1)/off(0). Default is off.

-http-bugs.allow-blacklist <0>/<1>

Turn blacklist of buggy servers on(1)/off(0). De

fault is on.

-http-bugs.bug-302-redirect <0>/<1>

Turn broken redirect 302 (violates RFC, but compat

ible with Netscape) on(1)/off(0). Default is off.

-http-bugs.bug_post-no-keepalive <0>/<1>

Turn no keepalive connection after POST request

(for some buggy PHP databases) on(1)/off(0). Default is off.

-http-proxy <host:port>

Host and port number of the HTTP proxy, or blank.

(default: blank)

-language <langname>

Language to use in user interface.

-max-connections <max>

Maximum number of concurrent connections. (de

fault: 10)

-max-connections-to-host <max>

Maximum number of concurrent connection to a given

host. (default: 2)

-memory-cache-size <Kbytes>

Cache memory in Kilobytes. (default: 1024)

-width <size>

Size of screen in characters, used in combination

with -dump. (default: 80)

-no-connect

Runs links as a separate instance - instead of con

necting to existing instance. Prevents him to connecting to an

existing session. See also -base-session option.

-receive-timeout <sec>

Timeout on receive. (default: 120)

-retries <retry>

Number of retries. (default: 3)

-source

Write the given HTML document in source form to

stdout.

-unrestartable-receive-timeout <sec>

Timeout on non restartable connections. (default:

600)

-version

Print the links version number and exit.

NAVIGATION KEYS

You may optionally prefix each of this keys with a number,

telling its repeat count (how much times to do it). You can also

re-bind those keys, altough this feature is still in the state of

testing, so undocumented. The keys you may use for navigation

are:

PGDN page down

Space page down

PGUP page up

b page up

B page up

CursorDOWN

next link/down

CursorUP

prev link/up

^INS copy to clipboard

^C copy to clipboard

INS scroll up

^P scroll up

DEL scroll down

^N scroll down

[ scroll left

] scroll right

HOME home

END end of page

CursorRIGHT

enter link/press button

ENTER enter link/press button

CursorLEFT

go back

d download link

D download link

/ 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 go to the current URL

a add a new bookmark

A add a new bookmark

s bookmark manager

S bookmark manager

q quit

Q quit

= document information

| header information

toggle HTML source/rendered view

* toggle display of images

TAB next frame

ESC menu/escape

F9 menu

F10 file menu

EDITING KEYS

The following keys can be used while editing a line/jump

ing to a URL:

CursorRIGHT

move right

CursorLEFT

move left

HOME jump to the beginning

^A jump to the beginning

END jump to the end

^E jump to the end

^INS copy to clipboard

^B copy to clipboard

^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

^W auto complete line

ENVIRONMENT

CONFIG_DIR

The location of ".links/"

WWW_HOME

Homepage location (as in lynx )

LINKS_XTERM

The command to run when selecting "File/New window"

and if DISPLAY is defined (default "xterm -e")

LINKS_TWTERM

The command to run when selecting "File/New window"

and if TWDISPLAY is defined (default "twterm -e")

SHELL Used for "File/OS Shell" menu

COMSPEC

Used for "File/OS Shell" menu in DOS/Windows

FILES

~/.links/links.cfg

Per-user config file, automatically created by

links. Its format is same as the one of user.cfg.

~/.links/html.cfg

Per-user config file, automatically created by

links. It contains HTML rendering options. Its format is same as

the one of user.cfg.

~/.links/user.cfg

Per-user config file, not overwritten while saving

links configuration. You can add your own options there (e.g.

keybindings). Each line consists from option name (same as the

command-line one, but without leading dash and with dashes con

verted to underscores), space, and its value, in quotes if it's a

string. Lines which start with # are considered as comments and

skipped.

~/.links/bookmarks

Bookmarks file

~/.links/links.his

Sites history file

~/.links/socket

Internal links socket for communication between its

instances.

PLATFORMS

links is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, So

laris, IRIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2 and BeOS. Port for

Win32 is in state of beta testing.

BUGS

Can't connect to some FTP servers (Novell, NT). Connection

stays in "Request sent" state.

Frames don't work if there're more frames with same name.

Turn them off in such case.

You can't upload large files; it takes _lots_ of memory.

You shouldn't press '^Z' when you are in a viewer

Please report any other bugs you find to Mikulas Patocka

<mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> or to links mailing list

<links-list@linuxfromscratch.org>.

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.

AUTHOR

links was written by Mikulas Patocka

<mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>. See file AUTHORS in the

source tree for a list of people contributing to this project.

The homepage of links can be found at

http://links.browser.org/

This manual page was written by Peter Gervai <grin@tol

na.net>, using excerpts from a (yet?) unknown links fan for the

Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Contribu

tions from Francis A. Holop. Extended, clarified and made more

up-to-date by Petr Baudis <pasky@ji.cz>.

SEE ALSO

lynx(1), w3m(1), wget(1)

Oct, 2001

LINKS(1)