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.

-dump
    Write a plain-text version of the given HTML document to stdout.

-no-connect
    Runs links as a separate instance - instead of connecting to existing instance.

-source
    Write the given HTML document in source form to stdout.

-version
    Print the links version number and exit.

-help
    Print a help screen.

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

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 informations

|   header informations

\   toggle HTML source/rendered view

*   toggle display 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 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

^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

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 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).

SEE ALSO
lynx(1), w3m(1)