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elinks
lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser
elinks
options
url
DESCRIPTION
ELinks is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors,
table rendering, background downloading, menu driven
configuration interface, tabbed browsing and slim code.
Frames are supported. You can have different file formats associated
with external viewers. mailto: and telnet: are supported via external
clients.
ELinks can handle local (file://) or remote
(http://, ftp:// or
https:// if there's compiled-in SSL support) URLs.
It has also basic support for finger:.
OPTIONS
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
--help.
&config-cmdoptions;
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
&config-envvars;
FILES
&config-files;
PLATFORMS
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.
BUGS
See the BUGS file coming with ELinks distribution
tarball for list of known bugs.
Please report any other bugs you find to the ELinks mailing list
elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org or
the bug system.
LICENSE
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.
AUTHORS
Links was written by Mikulas Patocka
mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. ELinks - which is
based on Links - was written by Petr Baudis
pasky@ucw.cz. See file AUTHORS in
the source tree for a list of people contributing to this project.
The homepage of ELinks can be found at http://elinks.or.cz/
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).
Contributions from Francis A. Holop. Extended, clarified and made more
up-to-date by Petr Baudis pasky@ucw.cz. Updated by Zas
zas@norz.org. The conversion to DocBook for ELinks 0.5
and trimming was done by Jonas Fonseca fonseca@diku.dk.
SEE ALSO
elinkskeys(5),
elinks.conf(5),
links(1),
lynx(1),
w3m(1),
wget(1)