A Short Introduction to Lynx
Lynx is a text browser for the Wide World Web (WWW). A broswer is
software to access (via a URL) files on the WWW. A WWW
HTML document is a file with text, links, graphics, sounds, videos, etc. A
text browser has access only to the text and the links. The links enables the
browser to connect to other documents. The links are words or phrases in the
document. Each link is highlighted. Some lynx commands are as follows;
up arrow move to previous link in current document
down arrow move to next link in current document
right arrow connect (via link) to another document
enter key connect (via link) to another document
left arrow conect (via link) to the previous document
So up and down arrows move within the same document and right and
left arrows move between documents.
space next page
b (or -) previous page
p copy document to a local file or to an e-mail message
= display current URL information page
backspace key display history list of URLs
g access another site
h connect to the lynx help document
/ search for characters in the current document
q quit lynx
A bookmark file is associated with lynx. This file contains names
of links (URLs) that you want to save.
a add to bookmark file
v display (view) bookmark file
URLs for search engines are;
- http://altavista.digital.com
- http;//www.search.com
- http://scwww.ucs.indiana.edu/metasrch