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Viewing the Various Webs on SDF
WWW
You already know how to do this because you are reading this wiki, but from shell at SDF, you can surf the World-Wide Web with the following programs
- Lynx: Lynx. From the SDF shell, you can issue the command:
lynx https://sdf.org
- links. This is a lynx alternative, which is less actively updated. From the SDF shell, you can issue the command:
links https://sdf.org
- elinks. This is a fork of links with more functionality. From the SDF shell, you can issue the command:
elinks https://sdf.org
Gopher
There are many ways to view gopherspace. The easiest for new users is one of the following:
Use Lynx
Lynx is the text web browser.
In addition to web browsing, Lynx is also capable of browsing gopherspace.
From the SDF shell, you can issue the command:
$ lynx gopher://sdf.org/
and Lynx will start up at sdf.org's gopher root menu.
Floodgap Gopher Proxy
Floodgap.com provides a public gopher proxy that you can view in your web browser at https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.
For more information, see the proxy info page: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/
Bombadillo
Made for browsing Gopherspace and Geminispace, too, you can use the homegrown 'bombadillo' browser
$ bombadillo gopher://sdf.org/
SDF Gopher Command
You can issue the gopher command, either from the SDF shell or from within the mkgopher
command prompt.