akfgb(1)                    General Commands Manual                   akfgb(1)

NAME
       akfgb - Browser for Gopher

SYNOPSIS
       akfgb [URL]

DESCRIPTION
       This is a browser for the Gopher protocol.

       Gopher  is  a  simple  Internet  protocol,  with which you can retrieve
       mainly texts via menus.  Other files can also be transmitted.

       This is an application for the terminal or for the text console (TUI).

       Help can be obtained by pressing [?], or [F1].

   KEYS
       F1, ?  help

       Esc, q, Q
              quit

       h, Pos1
              first line

       Ende   last line

       j, down
       k, up  navigation / select menu entry

       Enter, right
              start menu entry

       u, left
              back menu

       Space, Page down
              next page

       b, Page up
              previous page

       w      menu up

       F2, m  startaddress

       t      try to show it as text (independent of the given type)

       a      show address

       o      enter new URL

       F4, ^S save

       ^L, ^R refresh display

DETAILS
       Some files cannot be displayed.  But all files can be downloaded.

       For some files or services, additional software  can  be  installed  if
       necessary.  It shows which command is tried to be executed.

       Which  programs  to  execute  is  set  in  the  source code in the file
       akfgb.h.

   Redirect with SSH
       With OpenSSH you can redirect the traffic through another system.  This
       works by allocating a socket to listen to port on localhost.

       ssh -D localhost:1080 server.example.net
       # (other terminal)
       ALL_PROXY=socks5://localhost:1080
       export ALL_PROXY
       akfgb

ENVIRONMENT
       GOPHER_HOME
              Startaddress, when none is given

       GOPHER_PROXY
       gopher_proxy
       ALL_PROXY
       all_proxy
              Use a proxy.

              The information is given in form of a URL,
              SOCKS 4, 4a and 5 is supported.

              For example:
              socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/,
              socks5://Name:Password@127.0.0.1:1080/.

              Credentials for SOCKS 5 are transmitted  unencrypted.   SOCKS  4
              and  4a do not support credentials at all, but there the user ID
              (LOGNAME) will be transfered.

              Attention: External programs can establish Internet  connections
              outside   of  this  proxy.   This  is  especially  critical  for
              anonymization services.  In particular, you  should  avoid  menu
              items for URLs, Telnet, Tn3270, CCSO.

AUTHORS
       Copyright © 2025 Andreas K. Förster

       This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under  the  terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
       Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at  your
       option) any later version.

       This  program  is  distributed  in the hope that it will be useful, but
       WITHOUT ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even  the  implied  warranty  of  MER‐
       CHANTABILITY  or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General
       Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
       with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

SEE ALSO
       akfgopher-dl(1), akfweb-dl(1)
       feh(1), mpv(1), xdg-open(1), telnet(1), c3270(1), ph(1)

       gopher://akfoerster.de:47520

akfnetz                           2025-05-24                          akfgb(1)
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