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From: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com>
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Hi Chad,
> 
> That is, if I have the HTML source to a (mostly) text page, how do I
> convert it to something more easy to manipulate.  Like, "html2troff"
> would be good.
> 
> Do you have a favorite tool for such manipulations?

I usually use Lynx thus "$ lynx -dump <url>", or pipe it to a file, or
whatever ;')

hth,

haxxa


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