Using the 'friends' account to browse

First, the preferred method of accessing Friends and Partners is the use 
of the free Mosaic software from the National Center for Supercomputing 
Applications. This software allows you to view the in-line graphics, make 
use of the graphic maps, listen to audio, and view text in a more nicely 
formatted style. But, for a number of reasons, many of our users cannot 
use Mosaic. Mosaic requires a direct 'IP' (Internet Protocol) connection 
to the Internet and currently requires a fairly powerful Macintosh, IBM PC 
(or compatible), Amiga, or Unix workstation. 

So, many of our users instead use the special 'friends' account we have 
established on our computer system to access the WWW server. To access the 
material via this method, you must:

1) have telnet access to the Internet
2) be emulating a vt100 terminal (this is generally not a problem 
as most people seem to, by default, be using software that emulates a 
vt100 terminal)

The steps for the use of this method of access are: 

1) use the telnet command on your system to telnet to solar.rtd.utk.edu 
(NOTE: this is generally the command:
telnet solar.rtd.utk.edu
)
2) at the login: prompt, enter
friends
and press RETURN. Note: the use of all lowercase characters IS important. 
(it won't allow you to log in otherwise) 

3) wait a couple of seconds for the first screen to appear. 

At this point (if everything has worked as described), you are on our 
computer system (which, for those interested, is a Sun SPARCstation 10) 
using the free Lynx WWW browser software developed at the University of 
Kansas.

Now, all you need to know is how to use the Lynx software. The following 
are the more important instructions:

use the space bar to move forward through the pages of text use the 'b' 
key (lowercase b) to go backwards a page 

once you are on a 'hypertext link' (this is a highlighted word 
or phrase), press RETURN to 'go' to the referenced material if you have 
done this and want to go 'up' to the page from which 
you chose the hypertext link, press the 'u' key (lowercase u) 

press the tab key OR the down arrow key to move through the 
various hypertext links
press the up arrow key to go backwards through the hypertext 
links

if you want to mail yourself a copy of whatever you are reading, 
just press the 'p' key and then choose the "Mail" option. You will then be 
prompted to enter your email address (make sure to erase any material 
already in the prompt area) 

finally, when you wish to quit, just press the 'q' key. 

if you wish to learn lots about Lynx, press the '?' key. 

That's pretty much it! Lynx is a powerful and flexible software package 
and you are encouraged to use the '?' key to learn about its more powerful 
features (but probably only after having learned the 'fundamentals'!).