elinks/test/docbook/elinks.1.sgml

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<!DOCTYPE refentry SYSTEM "../elinksbook.dtd">

<refentry id="elinks.1">

<refmeta>
	<refentrytitle>elinks</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>

<refnamediv>
	<refname>elinks</refname>
	<refpurpose>lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
	<cmdsynopsis>
		<command>elinks</command>
		<arg choice="opt">options</arg>
		<arg choice="req">url</arg>
	</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1><title> DESCRIPTION </title>
<para>

	ELinks is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors,
	table rendering, background downloading, menu driven
	configuration interface, tabbed browsing and slim code. 

</para>
<para>

	Frames are supported. You can have different file formats associated
	with external viewers. mailto: and telnet: are supported via external
	clients. 

</para>
<para>

	ELinks can handle local (<varname>file://</varname>) or remote
	(<varname>http://,</varname> <varname>ftp://</varname> or
	<varname>https://</varname> if there's compiled-in SSL support) URLs.
	It has also basic support for <varname>finger:</varname>. 

</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title> OPTIONS </title>
<para>

	Most options can be set in the user interface or config file, so
	usually you do not need to care about them. Note that this list is by
	no means complete and it is not kept up-to-date. To get complete list
	of commandline options, start ELinks with parameter
	<parameter>--help</parameter>.

</para>
&config-cmdoptions;
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title> ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES </title>
&config-envvars;
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title> FILES </title>
&config-files;
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title> PLATFORMS </title>
<para>

	ELinks is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, IRIX,
	HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2, BeOS and RISC OS. Port for Win32 is in
	state of beta testing.

</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title> BUGS </title>
<para>

	See the <filename>BUGS</filename> file coming with ELinks distribution
	tarball for list of known bugs. 

</para>
<para>

	Please report any other bugs you find to the ELinks mailing list
	<ulink url="http://elinks.or.cz/community.html">
	elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org</ulink> or
	<ulink url="http://bugzilla.elinks.or.cz/">the bug system</ulink>.

</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title> LICENSE </title>
<para>

	ELinks 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.

</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title> AUTHORS </title>
<para>

	<command>Links</command> was written by Mikulas Patocka
	<email>mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz</email>. ELinks - which is
	based on Links - was written by Petr Baudis
	<email>pasky@ucw.cz</email>. See file <filename>AUTHORS</filename> in
	the source tree for a list of people contributing to this project. 

</para>
<para>

	The homepage of ELinks can be found at <ulink
	url="http://elinks.or.cz">http://elinks.or.cz/</ulink> 

</para>
<para>

	This manual page was written by Peter Gervai
	<email>grin@tolna.net</email>, using excerpts from a (yet?) unknown
	Links fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
	Contributions from Francis A. Holop. Extended, clarified and made more
	up-to-date by Petr Baudis <email>pasky@ucw.cz</email>. Updated by Zas
	<email>zas@norz.org</email>. The conversion to DocBook for ELinks 0.5
	and trimming was done by Jonas Fonseca <email>fonseca@diku.dk</email>.

</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title> SEE ALSO </title>
<para>

	<command>elinkskeys(5)</command>,
	<command>elinks.conf(5)</command>,
	<command>links(1)</command>,
	<command>lynx(1)</command>,
	<command>w3m(1)</command>,
	<command>wget(1)</command>

</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>