Basics of Using Lynx
Lynx is a non-graphical "client program" for the World Wide Web which is available on the NSIT Server Cluster (harper). Lynx is full-featured text browser and is capable of processing forms and providing password authentication.
To start running lynx, type lynx at your Unix prompt; this will default to the home page set by the lynx installation (http://www.uchicago.edu on the NSIT Server cluster). To start lynx with a specific URL, type lynx URL (for example lynx support.uchicago.edu).
A few common lynx commands
- h: help
- right arrow key: go through the current link.
- left arrow key: go backwards to the document you were at immediately before you came to your current document.
- down arrow key: move within the current document to the next link.
- up arrow key: move within the current document to the previous link.
- p: print. This is misleading; you cannot print directly unless you go through special configuration. Instead, you save through this function.
- d: download. Another way to save the current document.
- m: main screen. Return to the home page you started from. This command will ask for confirmation; youcan return from the home page with the left arrow key if you give it by mistake.
- g: go to a URL (will prompt you to specify the URL).
- q: quit (will ask for confirmation)
- Q: quit (willnot ask for confirmation
- a: add the current document to your bookmark file
- z: stop current data transfer
- !: go to your default shell (exit to return to lynx)
- /: search the text of the current document
- s: search the index of the current document (only usable for indexed documents)
- any number: go through the link with that number. Only usable if you have first turned on numbered links.
- o: options. Configure lynx's options, including numbering your links.
Last updated: 10/03/06
