From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 11 7:37:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDDE37BB99 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 07:37:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@inwind.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (212.141.78.55) by relay2.inwind.it; 11 Jul 2000 16:37:00 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:37:51 GMT Message-ID: <20000711.15375100@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: HTML => text port - does one exist? To: Mark Thomas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000711101542.00b94a60@mail.clark.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000711101542.00b94a60@mail.clark.net> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 7/11/00, 3:19:09 PM, Mark Thomas wrote regarding=20 HTML =3D> text port - does one exist?: > I have a few fairly simple but large HTML docs I maintain, and I've=20 been > looking through the ports for something that will allow me to take the= =20 HTML > down to a reasonably formatted text document. I see several ports for = going > from to HTML, but not much going the other way. > Anyone have a pointer? > (Please CC via direct mail -- can't keep up with the list any more) > Mark > --- > thomas@clark.net ---> http://www.clark.net/pub/thomas > PBEM Eldritch --------> http://www.pbegames.com > [TM4463-ORG] Dear Mark Thomas, you may wish to try lynx and w3m (free tools, available in the Ports=20 Collection, directory www). They can translate HTML into txt (cf their=20 man pages). Try & buy :-) Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message