help for lynx
lynx is a plain-text internet browser;
no pictures, no mouse, no clicking,
none of the fancy features of Netscape.
Displays web pages in plain text form,
which you navigate using the keyboard.
Can be very quick!
(There is a way to save pictures and
links to files...)
lynx -help
USAGE: lynx [options] [file]
Options are:
- receive the arguments from stdin (enclose
in double-quotes ("-") on VMS)
-anonymous used to specify the anonymous account
-ascii disable kanji code translation
-auth=id:pw authentication information for protected forms
-book use the bookmark page as the startfile
-buried_news toggles scanning of news articles for buried references
-cache=NUMBER NUMBER of documents cached in memory (default is 10)
-case enable case sensitive user searching
-cfg=FILENAME specifies a lynx.cfg file other than the default
-child exit on left-arrow in startfile, and disable save to disk
-crawl with -traversal, output each page to a file
with -dump, format output as with -traversal, but to stdout
-display=DISPLAY set the display variable for X execed programs
-dump dump the first file to stdout and exit
-editor=EDITOR enable edit mode with specified editor
-emacskeys enable emacs-like key movement
-enable_scrollback toggle compatibility with comm programs' scrollback
keys (may be incompatible with some curses packages)
-error_file=FILE write the HTTP status code here
-euc set kanji code to EUC
-fileversions include all versions of files in local VMS directory
listings
-force_html forces the first document to be interpreted as HTML
-ftp disable ftp access
-get_data user data for get forms, read from stdin,
terminated by '---' on a line
-head send a HEAD request
-help print this usage message
-historical toggles use of '>' or '-->' as a terminator for comments
-homepage=URL set homepage separate from start page
-image_links toggles inclusion of links for all images
-index=URL set the default index file to URL
-jpn toggle Japanese character translations
-link=NUMBER starting count for lnk#.dat files produced by -crawl
-localhost disable URLs that point to remote hosts
-mime_header include mime headers and force source dump
-minimal toggles minimal versus valid comment parsing
-nobrowse disable directory browsing
-nofrom disable transmissions of From headers
-nolist disable the link list feature in dumps
-nolog disable mailing of error messages to document owners
-noprint disable print functions
-noredir don't follow Location: redirection
-noreferer disable transmissions of Referer headers
-nostatus disable the miscellaneous information messages
-number_links force numbering of links
-post_data user data for post forms, read from stdin,
terminated by '---' on a line
-print enable print functions (DEFAULT)
-pseudo_inlines toggles pseudo-ALTs for inlines with no ALT string
-reload flushes the cache on a proxy server
(only the first document affected)
-restrictions=[options] use -restrictions to see list
-resubmit_forms toggles forced resubmissions (no_cache) of forms
-rlogin disable rlogins
-selective require .www_browsable files to browse directories
-show_cursor don't hide the curser in the lower right corner
-sjis set kanji code to Shift JIS
-soft_dquotes toggles emulation of the old Netscape and Mosaic bug which
treated '>' as a co-terminator for double-quotes and tags
-source dump the source of the first file to stdout and exit
-telnet disable telnets
-term=TERM set terminal type to TERM
-trace turns on WWW trace mode
-traversal traverse all http links derived from startfile
-underscore toggles use of _underline_ format in dumps
-validate accept only http URLs (for validation)
-version print Lynx version information
-vikeys enable vi-like key movement