LINKS(1)

NAME
links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser

SYNOPSIS
links [options] URL

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.

-async-dns <0>/<1>
    Asyncronous 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. Executing 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

KEYS
The keys you may use are:

ESC go to menu

^P, ^N
    scroll up, down

[, ]
    scroll left, right

up, down
    select link

->  follow link

<-  go back

g   go to url

/   search

?   search back

n   ind next

N   find previous

=   document info

\   document source

d   download

^C  quit

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
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 case.

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

You shoudn'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.

AUTHOR
links was written by Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>. See file Authors 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 Grin <grin@tolna.net>, using excerpts from a (yet?) unknown links fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO
lynx(1), w3m(1)