elinks 1 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)