LYNX(1) Lynx - the text web browser LYNX(1) (NAME) lynx - (SYNOPSIS) lynx [] [ URL ] lynx [] [ URL] -get_data -- lynx [] [ URL] -post_data -- "lynx -help" . (DESCRIPTION) Lynx (WWW) ( vt100 vt100 Windows POSIX " curses") . (HTML) Gopher HTTP FTP WAIS NNTP . Lynx Unix Windows ( Windows 95) DOS DJGPP OS/2 VMS OS/390. Lynx . Lynx (CWIS) . Lynx LAN ..SH " (OPTIONS)" Lynx URL . URL Lynx "?" "H" . "Help on URLs." . URL Lynx . ( URL ) G)oto . Lynx . "--" ( "-" "_" ). Lynx . ( ) . . (boolean) . : set () unset () toggle ( ). : set ( true) unset ( false) toggle ( true/false). : -center:off -center=off -center- Lynx "1" "+" "on" "true" (true) "0" "-" "off" "false" (false) . . Lynx lynx -help . Lynx . -help . - "-" Lynx . -get_data -post_data ( ). ( ) -auth -pauth . -accept_all_cookies Set-Cookie . "off" . -anonymous -restrictions . -assume_charset=MIMEname (charset) . -assume_local_charset=MIMEname Lynx . -assume_unrec_charset=MIMEname . -auth=ID:PASSWD . . -base URL BASE text/html -source. -bibhost=URL bibp ( http://bibhost). -blink . slang ( ) OS/2 EMX ncurses . -book (bookmarks) . . "off" . -buried_news . / uuencode . "on" . -cache=NUMBER (NUMBER) (cache). 10 . -case . "off" . -center HTML ( TABLE). . "on" . "off" . -cfg=FILENAME Lynx lynx.cfg . -child / . "off" . -child_relaxed / . "off" . -cmd_log=FILENAME . -cmd_script=FILENAME . -cmd_log . Lynx . "#" : exit Lynx . key . "Down Arrow". . set "name=value" lynx.cfg .lynxrc . Lynx cfg . -collapse_br_tags BR. "off" . -color . . Lynx slang . COLORTERM . curses ncurses Lynx ..IP show_color=always .lynxrc . show_color=never .lynxrc . -connect_timeout=N N . 300 . -convert_to=PARAM MIME ( www/present www/source) ( ";" charset=VALUE). -cookie_file=FILENAME . ~/.lynx_cookies MS-DOS ~/cookies . -cookie_save_file=FILENAME . -cookie_file . -cookies Set-Cookie / . "on" . -core (core dump) / . Lynx core dump . "off" . -crawl -traversal . -dump -traversal . -curses_pads "pad" curses (/) / . "on" . curses . "|" LINEWRAP_TOGGLE . . -debug_partial MessageSecs . "off" . -default_colors (default-colors) lynx.cfg / . "on" . -delay DebugSecs . 0 . -display=DISPLAY DISPLAY$ X . -display_charset=MIMEname (charset) . -dont_wrap_pre -dump -crawl
                 
               .
               "off" .

       -dump   
                 
                  
                
              .   
                
               .   
                 
                :

                  lynx -dump https://lynx.invisible-island.net

                
                  
               HTML 
                  
                
                 ".htm" 
              ".html"  .  
               
                  
                 
               -force_html 
              .

       -editor=EDITOR
                 
                EDITOR 
               .  (vi ed emacs 
              )

       -emacskeys
                 
              emacs   .
               "off" .

       -enable_scrollback
                
               (scrollback)
                
              / 
              (   
               curses 
              ).   "off" .

       -error_file=FILE
                
                Lynx 
               HTTP    
              .

       -exec    
                 (
                ).

       -fileversions
               
                
               
               VMS  .

       -find_leaks
                 (memory leak) 
              / .
                 
                 
                
                
                  
                .

       -fail_on_alert
                  
                   
              .   "off" .

       -force_empty_hrefless_a
               "A"  HREF  
                 
              (  
              ).   "off" .

       -force_html
                  
                 HTML  .
               "off" .

                
                 
                
                  
                ( 
                   HTML
                 ".txt" 
                ).

              Lynx   
                 HTML :

                  ".ht3",
                  ".htm",
                  ".html3",
                  ".html",
                  ".htmlx",
                  ".php3",
                  ".php",
                  ".phtml",
                  ".sht" 
                  ".shtml''.

       -force_secure
                  (secure
              flag)    SSL
                .
               "off" .

       -forms_options
                  
                 
                  .
               "on" .

       -from    From 
              / .
               "on" .

       -ftp    ftp  
              .   "off" .

       -get_data
               
                 
               get   
                  
               .   
                 "---"  
               .

              Lynx   HTTP GET 
                  
                
                 
                  
               .    
                  
              Lynx     
              .

       -head    HEAD 
                MIME
               .   "off"
              .

       -help    
                 Lynx 
                  ..TP
              -hiddenlinks=[option]  
               .

              merge
                  
                  
                    
                     
                   
                   
                  .

              listonly
                    
                  L)ist 
                  
                  -dump    
                 P)rint   
                    
                   
                  .  
                   .

              ignore
                    
                   
                  .

       -historical
                  ">"
               "-->" 
               
               ().
               "off" .

       -homepage=URL
                 
                 
              .

       -html5_charset
                 
               
               HTML5.  HTML5 
                CP1252  ISO-8859-1
              .   "off" .

       -image_links
                
                
              .   "off" .

       -index=URL
                 
                URL .

       -ismap   
               ISMAP   
                 (client-
              side MAPs).   "off" .

       -justify
                   
              (justification).   "off" .

       -link=NUMBER
                
               lnk#.dat 
               -crawl.   0 .

       -list_decoded
               -dump  
                 URL
               .
               "on" .

               Lynx 
                 URL 
                  
                 
                .
                URL  
                  
               
              .    
                
                
              .

       -list_inline
               -dump  
                 
               .   "off"
              .

       -listonly
               -dump  
                 .
               "off" .

       -localhost
                URL  
                
               .   "off"
              .

       -locexec
                
                 
                ( 
               Lynx   
                 ).
               "off" .

       -lss=FILENAME
                  
                 (color-style).
               lynx.lss .   
                  
              Lynx     
                
                  
               .

       -mime_header
               MIME  
                 
                  .

       -minimal
                 
                 
               ().
               "on" .

       -nested_tables
                
                  (
              ).   "on"
              .

       -newschunksize=NUMBER
                
               
              .

       -newsmaxchunk=NUMBER
                
                 
              .

       -nobold
                
                 (bold).

       -nobrowse
                
              .

       -nocc   
                Cc:
                
                .  
                  
                 (CC)
                 URL 
               mailto   ACTION 
                .

       -nocolor
                
                
              
               
               -color  COLORTERM
                 
              .lynxrc.

       -noexec
                
               .
               "on" .

       -nofilereferer
                
               Referer  URL
               (file).   "on" .

       -nolist
                
                
               dump.   "off"
              .

       -nolog   
                
                
              .   "on" .

       -nomargins
                
              /  
              .   "off" .

       -nomore
                 -more- 
                .

       -nonrestarting_sigwinch
                 
                 
              Lynx   
               HAVE_SIGACTION
                .  
                  
                   Lynx
                  xterm 
                
                 .
               "off" .

       -nonumbers
               
                
              .    
              -number_fields  -number_links  .
               "off" .

       -nopause
                
                 
              .   "off" .

       -noprint
                
               .  
              "off" .

       -noredir
                 
                  
                  URL .
               "off" .

       -noreferer
                
               Referer.  
              "off" .

       -noreverse
                
                (reverse).

       -nosocks
                 
               SOCKS   SOCKSified
               Lynx.

       -nostatus
                
               .  
              "off" .

       -notitle
                  
                 .
               "off" ..TP -nounderline
                
                (underline).

       -nozap=DURATION
                "z"   
                 DURATION
               "initially"    
                   
                .

       -number_fields
               
                
                .
               "off" .

       -number_links
               
              .   "off" .

       -partial
                 
                .
               "on" .

       -partial_thres=NUMBER
                  
                 
                 
              .

       -passive_ftp
                
               (passive)  ftp.
               "on" .

       -pauth=ID:PASSWD
                  
                 
                
               .  
                  
                 
                .

       -popup   
               
              SELECT   
               (popup)  
                
              .   "off" .

       -post_data
               
                 
               post  
                 
                 .
                   "---"
                
              .

              Lynx   POST   HTTP
                  
                URL   
                 
                 .
                  URL 
                Lynx    start-
              page  .

       -preparsed
                  -source 
                 
                HTML   
               
               
                 lynx  HTML
                .
               "off" .

       -prettysrc
                 HTML 
                 
               .   "off"
              .

       -print    .
              ()  
               -noprint .   "on"
              .

       -pseudo_inlines
                pseudo-ALT 
                
               ALT.   "on" .

       -raw     
               
                  
              CJK   
              .   "off" .

       -realm    URL 
                (realm) 
               .   "off"
              .

       -read_timeout=N
                 
                   N
                 
              .   18000 .

       -reload
                (cache) 
                 
               (  
                  
                ).
               "off" .

       -restrictions=[option][,option][,option]...
                
                
                
              .     
                
                 
                .    
                
                 .

              all
                  
                    
                  .

              bookmark
                    
                 (bookmark)   .

              bookmark_exec
                    
                    
                 .

              change_exec_perms
                    (eXecute) 
                    
                    
                   (
                   
                  ).

              default
                    
                 -anonymous  .
                   
                   
                  .  
                    
                   :

                        inside_telnet, outside_telnet, inside_ftp,
                        outside_ftp, inside_rlogin, outside_rlogin,
                        inside_news, outside_news, telnet_port, jump, mail,
                        print, exec, and goto.

                    
                   
                   goto
                   URL  
                   
                   userdefs.h 
                 .

              dired_support
                    
                  .

              disk_save
                     
                    
                  .

              dotfiles
                   
                  () 
                    
                 .

              download
                   
                    
                   (
                  disk_save ).

              editor
                   
                  .

              exec
                   
                  .

              exec_frozen
                    
                    
                 .

              externals
                    
                 URL  
                  (  EXTERN)
                    
                    "EXTERNAL"
                   .

              file_url
                   G)oto
                   
                   
                  :file 
                 .

              goto
                  "g" (goto)  
                 .

              inside_ftp
                  ftp  
                     
                   
                   (
                   utmp  ).

              inside_news
                    USENET  
                     
                   
                   (
                   utmp  ).

              inside_rlogin
                  rlogin  
                     
                   
                   (
                   utmp  ).

              inside_telnet
                  telnet  
                     
                   
                   (
                   utmp  ).

              jump
                  "j" (jump)  
                 ..TP multibook 
                  
                 .

              mail
                   
                 (mail).

              news_post
                   
                   USENET News.

              options_save
                   
                   .lynxrc.

              outside_ftp
                   ftp 
                     
                   
                  (
                   utmp 
                 ).

              outside_news
                    
                   USENET 
                     
                   
                  (
                   utmp 
                 ).    
                 URL "news", "nntp", "newspost"  "newsreply"
                    
                    
                 "snews", "snewspost"  "snewsreply" 
                 .

              outside_rlogin
                   rlogin 
                     
                   
                  (
                   utmp 
                 ).

              outside_telnet
                   telnet 
                     
                   
                  (
                   utmp 
                 ).

              print
                   
                   (print).

              shell
                   
                  (shell escapes)  G)oto lynxexec
                  lynxprog.

              suspend
                  
                  Control-Z 
                     .

              telnet_port
                   
                   G)oto telnet.

              useragent
                   
                   User-Agent.

       -resubmit_posts
                 (no-cache)
                 POST 
                
               
                PREV_DOC   
               (History List) 
                
              .   "off" .

       -rlogin
                
               rlogin.   "off"
              .

       -scrollbar
                 
              .   "off" .

       -scrollbar_arrow
                
                  
              .   "on" .

       -selective
                
              .www_browsable  
              .

       -session=FILENAME
                
                  
                  
                   
               .

       -sessionin=FILENAME
                  
                .

       -sessionout=FILENAME
                  
               .

       -short_url
               URL  
                  "..." 
                  
               .   
               URL   
                 
              .   "off" .

       -show_cfg
                
                  
              "lynx.cfg"    
              .   "off" .

       -show_cursor
                 
                 
                 
                 
                
              .   
                
               
               FANCY_CURSES .
                
                userdefs.h  lynx.cfg
               .   
                 
                .
               "on" .

       -show_rate
                  
                 /
                .  
                 
                 
              .   lynx.cfg  
                
              / / ETA
               .   "on"
              .

       -socks5_proxy=URL
               lynx    
                SOCKS5 
                .
                
                 DNS 
                   URL
                 SOCKS5 
               .

               URL    

                  "proxy.example.com",
                  "proxy.example.com:1080",
                  "192.168.0.1", 
                  "192.168.0.1:1080"

              (   
               IPv6)  .
                SOCKS5 
                 
               SOCKS5_PROXY  .
                
               SOCKS5  
                 
               -nosocks .

       -soft_dquotes
                 Netscape
               Mosaic    ">"  
               
               
                 
                
              .   "off" .

       -source
               dump   
                
                HTML
                 
              .   

                  lynx -source . >foo.html

                HTML   
                
                 
              .     
              HREF   
                 .  
               HREF  
                
                  
              :

                  lynx -source ./ >foo.html

       -stack_dump
                
               SIGINT.   "off"
              .

       -startfile_ok
                 
                  http 
              -validate.   "off" .

       -stderr
                  
                -dump  -source Lynx
                
              ()      
                
              .    -stderr
                 Lynx 
                 
                
              .   "off" .

       -stdin    
                ( 
              UNIX).   "off" .

       -syslog=text
                
              syslog.

       -syslog_urls
               URL   syslog.
               "off" .

       -tagsoup
               
                
               Tag Soup DTD   SortaSGML.
               "off" ..TP -telnet
                
               telnet.   "off"
              .

       -term=TERM
               Lynx    
                 
                 .  (
                
                  
                 
               Lynx    TCP/IP 
                  
                 
                   
                Lynx  
               .)

       -timeout=N
               win32  
                 (read-timeout) 
                   N
                 
              .

       -tlog    
                Trace Log  Lynx
               stderr   
              (trace) .   "on" .

       -tna    <<  
                >>
              ("Textfields Need Activation")  
              .   "off" .

       -trace   (trace)  Lynx 
               .   
                -tlog  .
               "off" .

       -trace_mask=value
                
                 
                 
                 .
                
                   OR
              :

              1   
                  SGML

              2    (color-style)

              4    (TRST)

              8   ( lynx.cfg
                 .lynxrc .lynx-keymaps mime.types  mailcap)

              16 /  
                   
                  .

              32  (cookies)

              64   (character sets)

              128
                  GridText

              256
                  (timing)

              512
                   URL

               0 .

       -traversal
                 http
                startfile.
                 
              -crawl    
                 startfile
                
                 
               .

                 
              CRAWL.announce  .

       -trim_blank_lines
                 
                 
                  
               
               BR.   "on"
              .

       -trim_input_fields
                
                
               text/textarea  .
               "off" .

       -underline_links
                 
               /
              (underline/bold)  .
               "off" .

       -underscore
                 
               _underline_   dump.
               "off" .

       -unique_urls
                
                  
                
                 
               .   "off"
              .

       -update_term_title
                 
               
               .   
                 
                 
                 (escape code)
               .  
                 -notitle 
               .   "off"
              .

       -use_mouse
                 
                 
              .   "off" .

              o      
                     
                     
                  .

              o      
                    
                  .

              o      
                     .

              o      
                     .

              o      
                     
                    
                     .

                 
               Lynx   ncurses  slang
                .   
              ncurses    
                  
                 .
                
               
               
                Lynx   
                .

       -useragent=Name
                 User-Agent 
              Lynx.

       -validate
                URL 
              http ( ).
               
                 .

       -verbose
                
               [LINK] [IMAGE]  [INLINE]
                
               .   "off"
              .

       -version
                 
              .

       -vikeys
                
                 vi.
               "off" .

       -wdebug
                
               tcp/ip   Waterloo
              (  watt debugfile).   
                 DOS
                WATTCP  WATT-32
               .

       -width=NUMBER
                
               dump 
              80 .     
                Lynx 
                 
               1024 ( MAX_LINE).

       -with_backspaces
                
              (backspace)   
               -dump  -crawl (
               man).   "off" .

       -xhtml_parsing
               Lynx   
               
                   
               XHTML 1.0  .  
                "

" . "off" ..SH " (COMMANDS)" . : o Up arrow Down arrow . o Right arrow Return . o Left Arrow "u" . o "H" "?" F1 . o "k" "K" . . o Delete . (ENVIRONMENT) "" DISPLAY HOME PATH SHELL TMPDIR USER Lynx Lynx . Lynx . . SIMULATED CGI SUPPORT NATIVE LANGUAGE SUPPORT . : Lynx . . Lynx: COLORTERM . . Lynx slang . LYNX_CFG ( lynx.cfg) LYNX_CFG_FILE userdefs.h . userdefs.h . LYNX_CFG_PATH ( lynx.cfg lynx.lss) . PATH ":" ( ";") . LYNX_HELPFILE URL URL Lynx . LYNX_LOCALEDIR (locale) (NLS) . LYNX_LSS Lynx . [ Lynx curses .] LYNX_SAVE_SPACE lynx.cfg SAVE_SPACE: . lynx.cfg . LYNX_TEMP_SPACE TMPDIR . MAIL Lynx lynx.cfg . NEWS_ORGANIZATION Organization: USENET . ORGANIZATION ( UNIX /etc/organization ) . NNTPSERVER NNTP USENET Lynx news: URL . ORGANIZATION Organization: USENET . UNIX /etc/organization . PROTOCOL_proxy Lynx (caching) . ( WWW_access_GATEWAY ). Lynx (http ftp gopher ) PROTOCOL_proxy . URI ":" "http" "http://some.server.dom:port" HTML. lynx : cso_proxy finger_proxy ftp_proxy gopher_proxy http_proxy https_proxy news_proxy newspost_proxy newsreply_proxy nntp_proxy no_proxy rlogin_proxy snews_proxy snewspost_proxy snewsreply_proxy telnet_proxy tn3270_proxy wais_proxy Lynx Users Guide . RL_CLCOPY_CMD (pipe) . RL_PASTE_CMD (pipe) . SOCKS5_PROXY -socks5_proxy ( ) . SSL_CERT_DIR . SSL_CERT_FILE . WWW_access_GATEWAY Lynx (gateway) "WWW_access_GATEWAY" ( "access" "http" "ftp" "gopher" "wais" ). . "/" PROTOCOL_proxy . Lynx Users Guide . WWW_HOME URL Lynx ..PP Lynx: LYNX_PRINT_DATE p(rint) Lynx Date: "Information about" ( =) ( ) . lynx.cfg PRINTER: . UNIX VMS "No Date" . LYNX_PRINT_LASTMOD p(rint) Lynx Last Mod: "Information about" ( =) ( ) . lynx.cfg PRINTER: . UNIX VMS "No LastMod" . LYNX_PRINT_TITLE p(rint) Lynx Linkname: "Information about" ( =) ( ) . lynx.cfg PRINTER: . UNIX VMS "No Title" . LYNX_PRINT_URL p(rint) Lynx URL: "Information about" ( =) ( ) . lynx.cfg PRINTER: . UNIX VMS "No URL" . LYNX_TRACE Lynx (trace) -trace . LYNX_TRACE_FILE Lynx.trace LY-TRACE.LOG ( DOS/Windows). . LYNX_VERSION Lynx Lynx . mailcap . TERM Lynx Lynx . ( "unknown" ) -term ( (OPTIONS) ) Lynx ( Lynx) . : Lynx LINES / COLUMNS . CGI (Simulated CGI Support) cgi-links Lynx cgi http . " lynxcgi" ( ) CGI : CONTENT_LENGTH CONTENT_TYPE DOCUMENT_ROOT HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE HTTP_USER_AGENT PATH_INFO PATH_TRANSLATED QUERY_STRING REMOTE_ADDR REMOTE_HOST REQUEST_METHOD SERVER_SOFTWARE LYNXCGI_ENVIRONMENT . lynx.cfg CGI 1.1 . CGI CGI ..SS " (Native Language Support)" Lynx Native Language Support . ABOUT_NLS GNU . : LANG . ISO 639 . ISO 3166 . LANGUAGE . GNU LANG LC_ALL . LC_ALL LC_MESSAGES . POSIX (POSIXly correct) . LINGUAS . . (hard-coded) . NLSPATH . (NOTES) (Mailing Lists) Lynx . "subscribe lynx-dev" . . "unsubscribe lynx-dev" . lynx-dev . (Acknowledgments) Lynx . Lynx Earl Fogel (University of Saskatchewan) HYPERREZ Unix . HYPERREZ Niel Larson Think.com Lynx . Unix Gopher (University of Minnesota) Lynx WWW - (Tim Berners-Lee) WWW . Foteos Macrides Lynx VMS Lou Montulli Garrett Blythe (University of Kansas) v2.7.2 Lynx ( ) ( ) . (AUTHORS) Lou Montulli, Garrett Blythe, Craig Lavender, Michael Grobe, Charles Rezac Academic Computing Services University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66047 Foteos Macrides Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 01545 Thomas E. Dickey .SH " (SEE ALSO)" catgets(3), curses(3), environ(7), ftp(1), gettext(GNU), localeconv(3), ncurses(3), setlocale(3), termcap(5), terminfo(5) Lynx 2.9.3 2026-05-26 LYNX(1)