links
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Text mode WWW browser

A lynx-like character mode browser. It includes support for
rendering tables and frames, features background downloads, can
display colors and has many other features. nlike lynx, links supports
the HTML TABLE tag. Links also allows you to download files in the
background.

Runtime requirements:
  libbz2_1
  libgcc1
  libopenssl100
  liblzma5
  zlib0

Build requirements:
  quilt
  libbz2-devel
  liblzmadec-devel
  openssl-devel
  zlib-devel

Canonical homepage:
  http://freecode.com/projects/links
  http://links.twibright.com
  http://packages.debian.org/links

Canonical download:
  http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/vyplody/links/download/

Version control repository:

Mailing list:
  <links-list at linuxfromscratch.org>
  http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/links-list/
  http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.links.general

IRC channel:

Upstream contact:
  Author: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas at twibright.com>
  Bugs: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas at twibright.com>, brain@twibright.com, clock@twibright.com, perm@twibright.com

License:
  GPL

Language:
  C

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Build instructions:
  unpack links-2.20.2-1-src.tar.bz2
    if you use setup to install this src package, it will be
    unpacked under /usr/src automatically
  cd /usr/src
  ./links*.sh all

This will create:
  links-2.20.2-1.tar.xz
  links-2.20.2-1-src.tar.xz

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Files included in the binary distribution:
  See Cygwin package archive

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Port Notes:

----- version 2.20.2-1 -----
- New upstream release 2020-05-05 Jari Aalto

----- version 2.14-1 -----
- New upstream release 2017-09-26 Jari Aalto

----- version 2.12-1 -----
- New upstream release 2015-09-28 Jari Aalto

----- version 2.8-2 -----
- Security patch added. Thanks to Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin.com>
- It was discovered that links does not verify SSL certificates, defeating
  the purpose of the security SSL is supposed to provide.
- http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/links.git/plain/links-2.2-ssl-verify.patch

----- version 2.8-1 -----
- New upstream release 2014-04-10 Jari Aalto

----- version 2.7-1 -----
- New upstream release 2012-09-15 Jari Aalto

----- version 2.5-1 -----
- New upstream release 2012-01-29 Jari Aalto

----- version 2.2-1 -----
- New upstream release 2010-06-24 Jari Aalto

----- version 1.00pre20-1 -----
- New maintainer, 2007-08-12 Jari Aalto.
- New upstream release.

----- version 0.99pre14-1 -----
- Initial release, 2003-11-27 Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu.edu>
- Add patch to fix the File->OS Shell and File->New Window commands
  (Frederic L. W. Meunier)

Cygwin port maintained by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net>