User Commands LINKS(1) NNNNAAAAMMMMEEEE links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser SSSSYYYYNNNNOOOOPPPPSSSSIIIISSSS lllliiiinnnnkkkkssss [_o_p_t_i_o_n_s] _U_R_L DDDDEEEESSSSCCCCRRRRIIIIPPPPTTTTIIIIOOOONNNN lllliiiinnnnkkkkssss is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, correct table rendering, background downloading, menu driven confi- guration 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. _l_i_n_k_s can handle local (file://) or remote (http://, ftp:// or https:// if there's compiled-in SSL support) URLs. OOOOPPPPTTTTIIIIOOOONNNNSSSS Most options can be set in the user interface or config file, so usually you do not need to care about them. ----aaaannnnoooonnnnyyyymmmmoooouuuussss Restrict links so that it can run on an anonymous account. No local file browsing. No downloads. Execut- ing of viewers is allowed, but user can't add or modify entries in association table. ----aaaassssssssuuuummmmeeee----ccccooooddddeeeeppppaaaaggggeeee <_c_o_d_e_p_a_g_e> Use the given codepage when the webpage did not specify its codepage. (default: ISO 8859-1) ----aaaassssyyyynnnncccc----ddddnnnnssss <_0>/<_1> Asynchronous DNS resolver on(1)/off(0). Default is on. ----bbbbaaaasssseeee----sssseeeessssssssiiiioooonnnn <_n_u_m_b_e_r> 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 ----nnnnoooo----ccccoooonnnnnnnneeeecccctttt option. ----ddddoooowwwwnnnnllllooooaaaadddd----ddddiiiirrrr <_p_a_t_h> Default download directory. (default: actual dir) SunOS 5.10 Last change: Oct, 2001 1 User Commands LINKS(1) ----ddddoooowwwwnnnnllllooooaaaadddd----uuuuttttiiiimmmmeeee <_0>/<_1> Set time of download files on(1)/off(0). Default is off. ----dddduuuummmmpppp Write a plain-text version of the given HTML document to stdout. ----ffffoooorrrrmmmmaaaatttt----ccccaaaacccchhhheeee----ssssiiiizzzzeeee <_n_u_m> Number of formatted document pages cached. (default: 5) ----ffffttttpppp....aaaannnnoooonnnnyyyymmmmoooouuuussss----ppppaaaasssssssswwwwoooorrrrdddd <_p_a_s_s_w_o_r_d> Use this as the password for anonymous ftp sites. ----ffffttttpppp----pppprrrrooooxxxxyyyy <_h_o_s_t:_p_o_r_t> Host and port number of the FTP proxy, or blank. (default: blank) ----hhhheeeellllpppp Print a help screen. ----hhhhttttttttpppp----bbbbuuuuggggssss....hhhhttttttttpppp11110000 <_0>/<_1> Turn use of HTTP/1.0 on(1)/off(0). Default is off. ----hhhhttttttttpppp----bbbbuuuuggggssss....aaaalllllllloooowwww----bbbbllllaaaacccckkkklllliiiisssstttt <_0>/<_1> Turn blacklist of buggy servers on(1)/off(0). Default is on. ----hhhhttttttttpppp----bbbbuuuuggggssss....bbbbuuuugggg----333300002222----rrrreeeeddddiiiirrrreeeecccctttt <_0>/<_1> Turn broken redirect 302 (violates RFC, but compatible with Netscape) on(1)/off(0). Default is off. ----hhhhttttttttpppp----bbbbuuuuggggssss....bbbbuuuugggg____ppppoooosssstttt----nnnnoooo----kkkkeeeeeeeeppppaaaalllliiiivvvveeee <_0>/<_1> Turn no keepalive connection after POST request (for some buggy PHP databases) on(1)/off(0). Default is off. ----hhhhttttttttpppp----pppprrrrooooxxxxyyyy <_h_o_s_t:_p_o_r_t> Host and port number of the HTTP proxy, or blank. (default: blank) SunOS 5.10 Last change: Oct, 2001 2 User Commands LINKS(1) ----llllaaaannnngggguuuuaaaaggggeeee <_l_a_n_g_n_a_m_e> Language to use in user interface. ----mmmmaaaaxxxx----ccccoooonnnnnnnneeeeccccttttiiiioooonnnnssss <_m_a_x> Maximum number of concurrent connections. (default: 10) ----mmmmaaaaxxxx----ccccoooonnnnnnnneeeeccccttttiiiioooonnnnssss----ttttoooo----hhhhoooosssstttt <_m_a_x> Maximum number of concurrent connection to a given host. (default: 2) ----mmmmeeeemmmmoooorrrryyyy----ccccaaaacccchhhheeee----ssssiiiizzzzeeee <_K_b_y_t_e_s> Cache memory in Kilobytes. (default: 1024) ----wwwwiiiiddddtttthhhh <_s_i_z_e> Size of screen in characters, used in combination with -dump. (default: 80) ----nnnnoooo----ccccoooonnnnnnnneeeecccctttt Runs links as a separate instance - instead of connect- ing to existing instance. Prevents him to connecting to an existing session. See also ----bbbbaaaasssseeee----sssseeeessssssssiiiioooonnnn option. ----rrrreeeecccceeeeiiiivvvveeee----ttttiiiimmmmeeeeoooouuuutttt <_s_e_c> Timeout on receive. (default: 120) ----rrrreeeettttrrrriiiieeeessss <_r_e_t_r_y> Number of retries. (default: 3) ----ssssoooouuuurrrrcccceeee Write the given HTML document in source form to stdout. ----uuuunnnnrrrreeeessssttttaaaarrrrttttaaaabbbblllleeee----rrrreeeecccceeeeiiiivvvveeee----ttttiiiimmmmeeeeoooouuuutttt <_s_e_c> Timeout on non restartable connections. (default: 600) ----vvvveeeerrrrssssiiiioooonnnn Print the _l_i_n_k_s version number and exit. NNNNAAAAVVVVIIIIGGGGAAAATTTTIIIIOOOONNNN KKKKEEEEYYYYSSSS You may optionally prefix each of this keys with a number, SunOS 5.10 Last change: Oct, 2001 3 User Commands LINKS(1) 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: PPPPGGGGDDDDNNNN page down SSSSppppaaaacccceeee page down PPPPGGGGUUUUPPPP page up bbbb page up BBBB page up CCCCuuuurrrrssssoooorrrrDDDDOOOOWWWWNNNN next link/down CCCCuuuurrrrssssoooorrrrUUUUPPPP prev link/up ^^^^IIIINNNNSSSS copy to clipboard ^^^^CCCC copy to clipboard IIIINNNNSSSS scroll up ^^^^PPPP scroll up DDDDEEEELLLL scroll down ^^^^NNNN scroll down [[[[ scroll left ]]]] scroll right HHHHOOOOMMMMEEEE home EEEENNNNDDDD end of page CCCCuuuurrrrssssoooorrrrRRRRIIIIGGGGHHHHTTTT enter link/press button EEEENNNNTTTTEEEERRRR enter link/press button CCCCuuuurrrrssssoooorrrrLLLLEEEEFFFFTTTT go back dddd download link SunOS 5.10 Last change: Oct, 2001 4 User Commands LINKS(1) DDDD download link //// search in the page ???? search back in the page nnnn find next match NNNN find next match backwards ffff zoom actual frame FFFF zoom actual frame ^^^^RRRR reload page gggg go to URL GGGG go to the current URL aaaa add a new bookmark AAAA add a new bookmark ssss bookmark manager SSSS bookmark manager qqqq quit QQQQ quit ==== document information |||| header information \\\\ toggle HTML source/rendered view **** toggle display of images TTTTAAAABBBB next frame EEEESSSSCCCC menu/escape FFFF9999 menu FFFF11110000 file menu EEEEDDDDIIIITTTTIIIINNNNGGGG KKKKEEEEYYYYSSSS The following keys can be used while editing a line/jumping SunOS 5.10 Last change: Oct, 2001 5 User Commands LINKS(1) to a URL: CCCCuuuurrrrssssoooorrrrRRRRIIIIGGGGHHHHTTTT move right CCCCuuuurrrrssssoooorrrrLLLLEEEEFFFFTTTT move left HHHHOOOOMMMMEEEE jump to the beginning ^^^^AAAA jump to the beginning EEEENNNNDDDD jump to the end ^^^^EEEE jump to the end ^^^^IIIINNNNSSSS copy to clipboard ^^^^BBBB copy to clipboard ^^^^XXXX cut to clipboard ^^^^VVVV paste from clipboard EEEENNNNTTTTEEEERRRR enter line BBBBAAAACCCCKKKKSSSSPPPPAAAACCCCEEEE delete back character ^^^^HHHH delete back character DDDDEEEELLLL delete character ^^^^DDDD delete character ^^^^UUUU delete from beginning of the line ^^^^KKKK delete to the end of the line ^^^^WWWW auto complete line EEEENNNNVVVVIIIIRRRROOOONNNNMMMMEEEENNNNTTTT Homepage location (as in llllyyyynnnnxxxx ) LINKS_XTERM The command to run when selecting "File/New window" and if DDDDIIIISSSSPPPPLLLLAAAAYYYY is defined (default "xterm -e") SunOS 5.10 Last change: Oct, 2001 6 User Commands LINKS(1) LINKS_TWTERM The command to run when selecting "File/New window" and if TTTTWWWWDDDDIIIISSSSPPPPLLLLAAAAYYYY is defined (default "twterm -e") SHELL Used for "File/OS Shell" menu COMSPEC Used for "File/OS Shell" menu in DOS/Windows FFFFIIIILLLLEEEESSSS Per-user config file, automatically created by lllliiiinnnnkkkkssss.... Its format is same as the one of _u_s_e_r._c_f_g. ~/.links/html.cfg Per-user config file, automatically created by lllliiiinnnnkkkkssss.... It contains HTML rendering options. Its format is same as the one of _u_s_e_r._c_f_g. ~/.links/user.cfg Per-user config file, not overwritten while saving lllliiiinnnnkkkkssss 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/links.his Sites history file ~/.links/socket Internal links socket for communication between its instances. PPPPLLLLAAAATTTTFFFFOOOORRRRMMMMSSSS lllliiiinnnnkkkkssss is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2 and BeOS. Port for SunOS 5.10 Last change: Oct, 2001 7 User Commands LINKS(1) Win32 is in state of beta testing. BBBBUUUUGGGGSSSS 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 MMMMiiiikkkkuuuullllaaaassss PPPPaaaattttoooocccckkkkaaaa <<<>>> or to lllliiiinnnnkkkkssss mmmmaaaaiiiilllliiiinnnngggg lllliiiisssstttt <<<>>>.... LLLLIIIICCCCEEEENNNNSSSSEEEE lllliiiinnnnkkkkssss 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. AAAAUUUUTTTTHHHHOOOORRRR _l_i_n_k_s was written by MMMMiiiikkkkuuuullllaaaassss PPPPaaaattttoooocccckkkkaaaa <<<>>>.... See file _A_U_T_H_O_R_S in the source tree for a list of people contributing to this pro- ject. The homepage of links can be found at hhhhttttttttpppp::::////////lllliiiinnnnkkkkssss....bbbbrrrroooowwwwsssseeeerrrr....oooorrrrgggg//// This manual page was written by Peter Gervai , using excerpts from a (yet?) unknown _l_i_n_k_s fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by oth- ers). Contributions from Francis A. Holop. Extended, clari- fied and made more up-to-date by Petr Baudis . SSSSEEEEEEEE AAAALLLLSSSSOOOO llllyyyynnnnxxxx(1), wwww3333mmmm(1), wwwwggggeeeetttt(1) SunOS 5.10 Last change: Oct, 2001 8