Plan 9 /sys/man/1/links

NAME

links – lynx–like WWW browser

SYNOPSIS

links [ options ] URL

DESCRIPTION

Links is a WWW browser, 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 (default): 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 is 10).
–
max–connections–to–host max

Maximum number of concurrent connection to a given host (default is 2).
–
retries retries

Number of retries (default is 3).
–
receive–timeout sec

Timeout on receive (default is 120).
–
unrestartable–receive–timeout sec

Timeout on non–restartable connections (default is 600).
–
format–cache–size pages

Number of formatted document pages cached (default is 5).
–
memory–cache–size kilobytes

Cache memory in Kilobytes (default is 1024).
–
http–proxy host:port

Host and port number of the HTTP proxy, or blank (default is blank).
–
ftp–proxy host:port

Host and port number of the FTP proxy, or blank (default is blank).
–
download–dir path

Default download directory (default is actual dir).
–
assume–codepage codepage

Use the given codepage when the webpage did not specify its codepage (default is ISO 8859–1).
–
anonymous
Restrict links so that it can run on an anonymous account: no local file browsing; no downloads; execution 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
Print the links version number and exit.
–
help
Print a help screen

NAVIGATION KEYS
The keys you may use while navigating are:
PGDNpage down
Spacepage 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
HOMEhome
END   end of page
CursorRIGHT

enter link/press button (text mode), scroll right (graphics mode)

ENTERenter 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

HOMEjump at the beginning
^A    jump at the beginning
END   jump at the end
^E    jump at the end
^INS   copy to clipboard
^B    copy to clipboard
^X    cut to clipboard (text mode only)
^V    paste from clipboard (text mode only)
ENTERenter line
BACKSPACE

delete back character

^H    delete back character
DEL   delete next character
^D    delete next character
^U    delete from beginning of the line
^K    delete to the end of the line
^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

Many. This is a program compiled with APE and should probably be remade from scratch.
Can't connect to some FTP servers (Novell, NT): connection stays in `Request sent' state.
Frames don't work if there's more frames with same name. Turn them off in such a 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>.

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.

HISTORY

Links was written by Mikulas Patocka, Karel `Clock' Kulhavy, Petr `Brain' Kulhavy, and Martin `PerM' Pergel. See file AUTHORS for a list of people contributing to this project.
The homepage of links can be found at
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links.
This manual page was written by Peter Gervai <grin@tolna.net>, using excerpts from a (yet?) unknown links fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Updated by Karel Kulhavy.


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


	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.


	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.