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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:09:07 -0700
To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
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Subject: Re: what's the easiest way to de-html-ize files?
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On May 12, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> This is for those of us who appreciate ASCII or straight
> 	ISO_8859-15 rather than marked up files.  I have slapped together
> 	a crude C program that does scotch (or *cleanse*) text of
> 	<B></B> and so on.   Still... is there some standalone converter
> 	that gets rids of markup more elegantly?   Something where i
> 	can say
>
> 	% cmd file_1.html ... file_N.html and output file_1.text ...
> 	file_N.text?

Perhaps:

   lynx -dump file1.html ... > file.text

...?

-- 
-Chuck