Lynx Users Guide v2.8.3
Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client
for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g.,
vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other
character-cell display). It will display Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML) documents containing links to files on the local system, as
well as files on remote systems running http, gopher,
ftp, wais, nntp, finger, or
cso/ph/qi servers, and services accessible via
logins to telnet, tn3270 or rlogin accounts (see
URL Schemes Supported by Lynx).
Current versions of Lynx run on Unix, VMS,
Windows3.x/9x/NT, 386DOS and OS/2 EMX.
Lynx can be used to access information on the WWW, or to build
information systems intended primarily for local access. For example, Lynx
has been used to build several Campus Wide Information Systems
(CWIS). In addition, Lynx can be used to build systems isolated
within a single LAN.