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LINKS !!!LINKS NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS NAVIGATION KEYS EDITING KEYS ENVIRONMENT FILES PLATFORMS BUGS LICENSE AUTHOR SEE ALSO ---- !!NAME links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser !!SYNOPSIS __links__ ''[[options] URL'' !!DESCRIPTION __links__ is a text mode 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://, 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 association table. __-assume-codepage__ '''' Use the given codepage when the webpage did not specify its codepage. (default: ISO 8859-1) __-async-dns__ '''' Asynchronous DNS resolver on(1)/off(0). Default is on. __-base-session__ '''' 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 also __-no-connect__ option. __-download-dir__ '''' Default download directory. (default: actual dir) __-download-utime__ '''' Set time of download files on(1)/off(0). Default is off. __-dump__ Write a plain-text version of the given HTML document to stdout. __-fake-referer__ '''' Send always this HTTP referer. Has a mean only with __-http-referer__ ''3''. __-format-cache-size__ '''' Number of formatted document pages cached. (default: 5) __-ftp.anonymous-password__ '''' Use this as the password for anonymous ftp sites. __-ftp-proxy__ '''' Host and port number of the FTP proxy, or blank. (default: blank) __-help__ Print a help screen. __-http-bugs.http10__ '''' Turn use of HTTP/1.0 on(1)/off(0). Default is off. __-http-bugs.allow-blacklist__ '''' Turn blacklist of buggy servers on(1)/off(0). Default is on. __-http-bugs.bug-302-redirect__ '''' Turn broken redirect 302 (violates RFC, but compatible with Netscape) on(1)/off(0). Default is off. __-http-bugs.bug_post-no-keepalive__ '''' Turn no keepalive connection after POST request (for some buggy PHP databases) on(1)/off(0). Default is off. __-http-proxy__ '''' Host and port number of the HTTP proxy, or blank. (default: blank) __-http-referer__ '''' Turn sending of HTTP referer. Either never(0), true(1), same URL(2) or fake(3). (default: none) __-language__ '''' Language to use in user interface. __-max-connections__ '''' Maximum number of concurrent connections. (default: 10) __-max-connections-to-host__ '''' Maximum number of concurrent connection to a given host. (default: 2) __-memory-cache-size__ '''' Cache memory in Kilobytes. (default: 1024) __-no-connect__ Runs links as a separate instance - instead of connecting to existing instance. Prevents him to connecting to an existing session. See also __-base-session__ option. __-receive-timeout__ '''' Timeout on receive. (default: 120) __-retries__ '''' Number of retries. (default: 3) __-source__ Write the given HTML document in source form to stdout. __-unrestartable-receive-timeout__ '''' Timeout on non restartable connections. (default: 600) __-user-agent__ Change the User Agent. That means identification string, which is sent to HTTP server, when a document is requested. Default is __-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. See linkskeys(5) for complete documentation about keybindings and more complete list of keys bound by default. 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 __F4__ edit textarea in external editor (broken) __^T__ edit textarea in external editor (broken) __/__ 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 __^K__ reload cookies from ~/.links/cookies __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/jumping 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 WWW_HOME Homepage location (as in __lynx__ ) LINKS_XTERM The command to run when selecting DISPLAY__ is defined (default __ LINKS_TWTERM The command to run when selecting TWDISPLAY__ is defined (default __ SHELL Used for COMSPEC Used for !!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 converted 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/cookies Cookies 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, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2, BeOS and RISC OS. Port for Win32 is in state of beta testing. !!BUGS Can't connect to some FTP servers (Novell, NT). Connection stays in 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 __ or to __links mailing list __ !!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 __ 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 links'' fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Contributions from Francis A. Holop. Extended, clarified and made more up-to-date by Petr Baudis '' !!SEE ALSO linkskeys(5), lynx(1), w3m(1), wget(1) ----
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