LINKS2(1)						      General Commands Manual							 LINKS2(1)

NAME

       links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser

SYNOPSIS

       links2 [options] URL

DESCRIPTION

       links2  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.

       links2 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.

       -help  Print a help screen

       -version
	      Prints the links version number and exit.

       -lookup <hostname>
	      Does name lookup, like command "host".

       -g     Run  Links2 in graphics mode. If not given, Links2 will run in text mode.  Running in graphics mode means that Links2 will probe all
	      compiled-in graphics devices and run on the first found. If none found, links2 will not run in graphics mode. This option works only
	      if --enable-graphics was given to ./configure.

       -no-g  Run in text mode (overrides previous -g).

       -driver <driver name>
	      Graphics	driver	to  use.  Drivers are: x, svgalib, fb, directfb, pmshell, atheos.  List of drivers will be shown if you give it an
	      unknown driver.  Available drivers depend on your operating system and available libraries.

       -mode <parameter>
	      Pass a parameter to the graphics driver. On SVGAlib, this is widthxheightxdepth, (where depth is 16, 256, 32K, 64K,  16M	or  16M32)
	      and defines the graphics mode, on X the format is WIDTHxHEIGHT and defines the window size.

       -display <x-display>
	      Set Xwindow display.

       -force-html
	      Treat files with unknown type as html rather than text.  (can be toggled with '' key)

       -source <url>
	      Write unformatted data stream to stdout.

       -dump <url>
	      Write formatted document to stdout.

       -width <number>
	      For dump, document will be formatted to this screen width (but it can still exceed it if lines can't be broken).

       -codepage <codepage>
	      For dump, convert output to specified character set -- for example iso-8859-2, windows-1250.

       -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 links2 as a separate instance - instead of connecting to existing instance.

       -download-dir <path>
	      Default download directory.  (default: actual dir)

       -language <language>
	      Set user interface language.

       -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)

       -bind-address <ip address>
	      Use a specific local IP address.

       -bind-address-ipv6 <ipv6 address>
	      Use a specific local IPv6 address.

       -async-dns <0>/<1>
	      Asynchronous DNS resolver on(1)/off(0).

       -download-utime <0>/<1>
	      Set time of downloaded files to last modification time reported by server.

       -format-cache-size <num>
	      Number of formatted document pages cached.  (default: 5)

       -memory-cache-size <bytes>
	      Cache memory in bytes.  (default: 1048576)

       -image-cache-size <bytes>
	      Cache memory in bytes.  (default: 1048576)

       -font-cache-size <bytes>
	      Cache memory in bytes.  (default: 2097152)

       -aggressive-cache <0>/<1>
	      Always cache everything regardless of server's caching recomendations.  Many servers deny caching  even  if  their  content  is  not
	      changing just to get more hits and more money from ads.

       -address-preference <0>/<1>/<2>/<3>/<4>
	      (default 0) 0 - use system default.  1 - prefer IPv4.  2 - prefer IPv6.  3 - use only IPv4.  4 - use only IPv6.

       -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)

       -https-proxy <host:port>
	      Host and port number of the HTTPS proxy, or blank.  (default: blank)

       -socks-proxy <user@host:port>
	      Userid, host and port of Socks4a, or blank.  (default: blank)

       -append-text-to-dns-lookups <text>
	      Append text to dns lookups. It is useful for specifying fixed tor exit node.  (default: blank)

       -only-proxies <0>/<1>
	      "1" causes that Links won't initiate any non-proxy connection.  It is useful for anonymization with tor or similar networks.

       -http-bugs.http10 <0>/<1>
	      (default	0) "1" forces using only HTTP/1.0 protocol. (useful for buggy servers that claim to be HTTP/1.1 compliant but are not) "0"
	      enables using both HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.

       -http-bugs.allow-blacklist <0>/<1>
	      (default 1) "1" defaults to using list of servers that have broken HTTP/1.1 support.  When links2 finds such server, it  will  retry
	      the request with HTTP/1.0.

       -http-bugs.bug-302-redirect <0>/<1>
	      (default	1)  Process  302  redirect in a way that is incompatible with RFC1945 and RFC2068, but the same as Netscape and MSIE. Many
	      pages depend on it.

       -http-bugs.bug-post-no-keepalive <0>/<1>
	      (default 0) No keepalive connection after post requests. For some buggy servers.

       -http-bugs.bug-no-accept-charset <0>/<1>
	      (default 0) Do not send Accept-Charset field of HTTP header. Because it is too long  some  servers  will	deny  the  request.  Other
	      servers will convert content to plain ascii when Accept-Charset is missing.

       -http-bugs.no-compression <0>/<1>
	      (default	0)  "1" causes that links won't advertise HTTP compression support (but it will still accept compressed data). Use it when
	      you communicate with server that has broken compression support.

       -http-bugs.retry-internal-errors <0>/<1>
	      (default 0) Retry on internal server errors (50x).

       -http.referer <0>/<1>/<2>/<3>/<4>
	      (default 0) 0 - do not send referer.  1 - send the requested URL as referer.  2 - send fake referer.  3 - send real  referer.   4  -
	      send real referer only to the same server.

       -http.fake-referer <string>
	      Fake referer value.

       -http.fake-user-agent <string>
	      Fake user agent value.

       -http.extra-header <string>
	      Extra string added to HTTP header.

       -ftp.anonymous-password <string>
	      Password for anonymous ftp access.

       -ftp.use-passive <0>/<1>
	      Use ftp PASV command to bypass firewalls.

       -ftp.use-erpt-epsv <0>/<1>
	      Use EPRT and EPSV commands instead of PORT and PASV.

       -ftp.fast <0>/<1>
	      Send  more  ftp  commands  simultaneously.  Faster  response when browsing ftp directories, but it is incompatible with RFC and some
	      servers don't like it.

       -menu-font-size <size>
	      Size of font in menu.

       -menu-background-color 0xRRGGBB
	      Set menu background color in graphics mode. RRGGBB are hex.

       -menu-foreground-color 0xRRGGBB
	      Set menu foreground color in graphics mode. RRGGBB are hex.

       -scroll-bar-area-color 0xRRGGBB
	      Set color of scroll bar area. RRGGBB are hex.

       -scroll-bar-bar-color 0xRRGGBB
	      Set color of scroll bar. RRGGBB are hex.

       -scroll-bar-frame-color 0xRRGGBB
	      Set color of scroll bar frame. RRGGBB are hex.

       -bookmarks-codepage <codepage>
	      Character set of bookmarks file.

       -bookmarks-file <file>
	      File to store bookmarks.

       -display-red-gamma <fp-value>
	      Red gamma of display. (default 2.2)

       -display-green-gamma <fp-value>
	      Green gamma of display. (default 2.2)

       -display-blue-gamma <fp-value>
	      Blue gamma of display. (default 2.2)

       -user-gamma <fp-value>
	      Additional gamma. (default 1)

       -bfu-aspect <fp-value>
	      Display aspect ration.

       -aspect-on <0>/<1>
	      Enable aspect ratio correction.

       -dither-letters <0>/<1>
	      Do letter dithering.

       -dither-images <0>/<1>
	      Do image dithering.

       -display-optimize <0>/<1>/<2>
	      Optimize for CRT (0), LCD RGB (1), LCD BGR (2).

       -gamma-correction <0>/<1>/<2>
	      Type of gamma correction: (default 2) 0 - 8-bit (fast).  1 - 16-bit (slow).  2 - automatically detect according to speed of FPU.

       -overwrite-instead-of-scroll <0>/<1>
	      Overwrite the screen instead of scrolling it (valid for svgalib and framebuffer).  Overwriting may or may not be	faster,  depending
	      on hardware.

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

       -html-hard-assume <0>/<1>
	      Use always character set from "-html-assume-codepage" no matter what server sent.

       -html-tables <0>/<1>
	      Render tables. (0) causes tables being rendered like in lynx.

       -html-frames <0>/<1>
	      Render frames. (0) causes frames	rendered like in lynx.

       -html-images <0>/<1>
	      Display links to unnamed images as [IMG]

       -html-image-names <0>/<1>
	      Display filename of an image instead of [IMG].

       -html-display-images <0>/<1>
	      Display images in graphics mode.

       -html-image-scale <percent>
	      Scale images in graphics mode.

       -html-bare-image-autoscale <0>/<1>
	      Autoscale images displayed in full screen.

       -html-numbered-links <0>/<1>
	      Number links in text mode. Allow quick link selection by typing link number and enter.

       -html-table-order <0>/<1>
	      In text mode, walk through table by rows (0) or columns (1).

       -html-auto-refresh <0>/<1>
	      Process refresh to other page (1), or display link to that page (0).

       -html-target-in-new-window <0>/<1>
	      Allow opening new windows from html.

       -html-margin <number of spaces>
	      Margin in text mode.

       -html-user-font-size <size>
	      Size of font on pages in graphics mode.

       -html-t-text-color <0>-<15>
	      Text color in text mode.

       -html-t-link-color <0>-<15>
	      Link color in text mode.

       -html-t-background-color <0>-<7>
	      Background color in text mode.

       -html-t-ignore-document-color <0>/<1>
	      Ignore colors specified in html document in text mode.

       -html-g-text-color 0xRRGGBB
	      Text color in graphics mode.

       -html-g-link-color 0xRRGGBB
	      Link color in graphics mode.

       -html-g-background-color 0xRRGGBB
	      Background color in graphics mode.

       -html-g-ignore-document-color <0>/<1>
	      Ignore colors specified in html document in graphics mode.

       More options can be seen with links2 -h

NAVIGATION KEYS

       The keys you may use while navigating are

       ESC    menu/escape

       F9     menu

       F10    file menu

       TAB    next frame

       PGDN   page down

       Space  page down

       PGUP   page up

       b      page up

       CursorDOWN
	      next link/down

       CursorUP
	      prev link/up

       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

       /      search in the page

       ?      search back in the page

       n      find next match

       N      find next match backwards

       f      zoom actual frame

       ^R     reload page

       g      go to URL

       G      edit the current URL and goto the result

       ^G     edit the current link and goto the result

       s      bookmark manager

       q      quit, close window if more windows are open

       Q      quit without asking

       =      document information

             toggle HTML source/rendered view

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

       ^X     cut to clipboard (text mode only)

       ^B     copy to clipboard

       ^INS   copy to clipboard

       ^V     paste from clipboard (text mode only)

       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

       ~/.links2/links.cfg
	      Per-user configfile, automatically created by links2.

PLATFORMS

       links2 is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2, BeOS and Win32.

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 shouldn'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

       links2  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

       links2 was written by Mikulas Patocka, Karel 'Clock' Kulhavy, Petr 'Brain' Kulhavy, and Martin 'PerM' Pergel.  See file AUTHORS for a  list
       of people contributing to this project.

       The homepage of links2 can be found at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links

       This  manual  page  was	written by Peter Gervai <grin@tolna.net>, using excerpts from a (yet?) unknown links2 fan for the Debian GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others). Updated by Karel Kulhavy.

SEE ALSO

       lynx(1), w3m(1)

								     Aug, 2006								 LINKS2(1)