Commands

Help

Gives a list of available commands depending on the context, the version number of the www program, and the hypertext address, (or UDI) of the document you are reading.

<.Return>.

Just hitting Return displays the next page of the current document.

<.number>.

Typing a number by itself follows the corresponding reference from the currently displayed document.

Find keywords

Queries the current index with the supplied keywords (separated by blanks). The interpretation of the keywords depends on the particular information server you're looking at. In most cases, it will search a database for entries matching the keywords, and will display the results with possibly links to further details. For more complex queries, instructions should be present in the cover page. The "Find" command can be omitted if the first keyword does not conflict with another www command.

Back

Goes back to the document you were reading before.

Home

Goes back to the first document you were reading.

Recall

Without a parameter, gives a numbered list of the documents you have visited. To select one, type "Recall" followed by the number.

List

Gives a numbered list of the links from the current document, giving the title of the target documents (or addresses if no title). To follow a link, type the number by itself as above.

Next, Previous

Goes to the next or previous document in the list of pointers from the document that led to the current one. This is better explained with an example: suppose you are reading a document which looks like a menu, and you want to read all entries in turn. You first type "1" to read the first referred document (by following the first link), and then you type "next" or just "n" to read the next one from the menu, without actually coming back to the menu and typing "2", etc.

Go <.address>.

Goes to the document represented by the given hypertext address, which is interpreted relatively to the current document.

Up, Down

Scrolls up or down one page in the current document.

Top, Bottom

Goes to the top or the bottom of the current document.

Verbose

Toggles verbose mode (for maintenance purposes).

Quit

Leaves the application.

Print

Prints the current document, without the numbered document references. A background www is launched to do that, and its output is piped to the command defined by the environment variable WWW_PRINT_COMMAND ("lpr" by default).

>. file, >.>. file

Saves or appends the current document to the given file, without the numbered document references. A background www is launched to do that.

| command

Pipes the current document to the given command, without the numbered document references. A background www is launched to do that.

! command

Executes the given shell command without leaving www.

CD (or LCD) directory

Changes the local working directory. "! cd directory" won't do this because it applies to a subshell.