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Usage

Overview

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 <codepage>

Use the given codepage when the webpage did not specify its codepage. (default: ISO 8859-1)

-async-dns <0>/<1>

Asynchronous DNS resolver on(1)/off(0). Default is on.

-base-session <number>

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 <path>

Default download directory. (default: actual dir)

-download-utime <0>/<1>

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.

-format-cache-size <num>

Number of formatted document pages cached. (default: 5)

-ftp.anonymous-password <password>

Use this as the password for anonymous ftp sites.

-ftp-proxy <host:port>

Host and port number of the FTP proxy, or blank. (default: blank)

-help

Print a help screen.

-http-bugs.http10 <0>/<1>

Turn use of HTTP/1.0 on(1)/off(0). Default is off.

-http-bugs.allow-blacklist <0>/<1>

Turn blacklist of buggy servers on(1)/off(0). Default is on.

-http-bugs.bug-302-redirect <0>/<1>

Turn broken redirect 302 (violates RFC, but compatible with Netscape) on(1)/off(0). Default is off.

-http-bugs.bug_post-no-keepalive <0>/<1>

Turn no keepalive connection after POST request (for some buggy PHP databases) on(1)/off(0). Default is off.

-http-proxy <host:port>

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

-language <langname>

Language to use in user interface.

-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)

-memory-cache-size <Kbytes>

Cache memory in Kilobytes. (default: 1024)

-width <size>

Size of screen in characters, used in combination with -dump. (default: 80)

-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 <sec>

Timeout on receive. (default: 120)

-retries <retry>

Number of retries. (default: 3)

-source

Write the given HTML document in source form to stdout.

-unrestartable-receive-timeout <sec>

Timeout on non restartable connections. (default: 600)

-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, altough this feature is still in the state of testing, so undocumented. The keys you may use for navigation are:

Editing keys

The following keys can be used while editing a line/jumping to a URL:

Environment

The location of ".links/"

CONFIG_DIR

WWW_HOME

Homepage location (as in lynx )

LINKS_XTERM

The command to run when selecting "File/New window" and if DISPLAY is defined (default "xterm -e")

LINKS_TWTERM

The command to run when selecting "File/New window" and if TWDISPLAY is defined (default "twterm -e")

SHELL

Used for "File/OS Shell" menu

COMSPEC

Used for "File/OS Shell" menu in DOS/Windows

Files

Per-user config file, automatically created by

~/.links/links.cfg

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/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 and BeOS. Port for Win32 is in state of beta testing.