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Viewing the Various Webs on SDF

WWW

You already know how to do this because you are reading this wiki probalby on your favorite web browser, but from shell at SDF, you can surf the World-Wide Web with several command line programs as well. Some popular options are:

  • Lynx: Lynx. This is a multi-purpse text-based web browser. 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: [http://elinks.or.cz/|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.

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