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Guides and Instructions » WWW browsing and publishing » WWW Browsers

Lynx-browser

In the Unix computers you can browse WWW by the command lynx, which opens the home page of the University of Helsinki. You can jump directly to a certain URL by the following command: lynx http://www.fmi.fi/SO/maa_1.html (weather forecast).

The UP and Down arrow keys change the selected link (shown by the black background), the Right key follows the link and the Left key takes you back to the previous document.

  • With the page keys (PageUp/PageDown, PrevScreen/NextScreen) you can browse the text faster. Sivunäppäimillä (PageUp/PageDown, PrevScreen/NextScreen) voi selata tekstiä nopeammin.
  • You can reach the help pages of Lynx with the key h (Help)  Lynxin opastukset löytyvät näppäimellä h (Help)

With the following commands you can manage quite far:

q   Quit
a   Add the page or link in question to the bookmark file.
v   View your bookmark file.
g   Go to given URL.
m   Go back to main menu
p   Print, save or mail the page you are reading.
/   Search the given word from the open page.
o   Options. Change "User Level" to "Advanced" and you can see in the lower margin where the selected link is pointing to.
=   Show the technical information of the selected page and link (e.g. URL).
d   Download a non-text file to the Unix computer.
\   Show the page in hypertext mode (HTML). In PC backslash (\) = AltGr-+ .
e   Open a file (in the same computer) into editor.

The bookmarks are a very handy way to collect a list of interesting places, so it is worthwhile to learn to use them.

URL: The place of a document in the Internet.

Data on the network is referenced by so-called Universal Resource Locators. An URL tells you

  • how (http, gopher, ftp),
  • which computer (the Internet name of the computer) and
  • which directory/file the information is available in.

You must write the URL-address to the very letter, (e.g. UPPER and lower case characters are not the same). Despite being a little clumsy an URL is a handy way to specify the location of data.

02.06.2010

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