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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
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<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9">
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<TITLE>Linux WWW HOWTO : Lynx</TITLE>
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<H2><A NAME="lynx"></A> <A NAME="s3">3. Lynx</A></H2>
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<P>Lynx is one of the smaller (around 600 K executable) and faster
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web browsers available. It does not eat up much bandwidth nor system
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resources as it only deals with text displays. It can display on any
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console, terminal or xterm. You will not need an <EM>X Windows system</EM>
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or additional system memory to run this little browser.
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.1">3.1 Where to get</A>
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</H2>
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<P>Both the Red Hat and Slackware distributions have Lynx in them. Therefore I
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will not bore you with the details of compiling and installing Lynx.
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<P>The latest version is 2.7.1 and can be retrieved from
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<A HREF="http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/fote/">http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/fote/</A> or from almost any friendly Linux
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FTP server like
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<A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/browsers/">ftp://sunsite.unc.edu under /pub/Linux/apps/www/broswers/</A>
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or mirror site.
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<P>For more information on Lynx try these locations:
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<DL>
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<DT><B>Lynx Links</B><DD><P>
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<A HREF="http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx.html">http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx.html</A><DT><B>Lynx Pages</B><DD><P>
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<A HREF="http://lynx.browser.org">http://lynx.browser.org</A><DT><B>Lynx Help Pages</B><DD><P>
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<A HREF="http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html">http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html</A>
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(the same pages you get from lynx --help and typing ? in lynx)
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</DL>
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<P>Note: The Lynx help pages have recently moved. If you have an older version
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of Lynx, you will need to change your lynx.cfg (in /usr/lib) to point to the
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new address(above).
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<P>I think the most special feature of Lynx against all other
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web browsers is the capability for batch mode retrieval. One can write
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a shell script which retrieves a document, file or anything like that
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via <EM>http</EM>, <EM>FTP</EM>, <EM>gopher</EM>, <EM>WAIS</EM>, <EM>NNTP</EM> or
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<EM>file://</EM> - url's and save it to disk.
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Furthermore, one can fill in data into HTML forms in batch mode by simply
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redirecting the standard input and using the <EM>-post_data</EM> option.
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<P>For more special features of Lynx just look at the help files and the man
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pages. If you use a special feature of Lynx that you would like to see
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added to this document, let me know.
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