Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:46:18 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Thomas <thomas@clark.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HTML => text port - does one exist? Message-ID: <20000711154618.T11000@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000711101542.00b94a60@mail.clark.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000711101542.00b94a60@mail.clark.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Mark Thomas wrote: > I have a few fairly simple but large HTML docs I maintain, and I've been > looking through the ports for something that will allow me to take the HTML > down to a reasonably formatted text document. I see several ports for going > from <something> to HTML, but not much going the other way. > > Anyone have a pointer? Look at lynx and w3m, both in ports/www. They're both text based web browsers which can do this conversion. With lynx it's "lynx -dump yourfile.html", I'm not sure about w3m since I don't use it. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: 78uqMtcJos+pbsJtmOqKjHMpLT6XpaI3 iQCVAwUBOWszOSsPVtiZOS99AQH0UgP+L54xeNSQuaTHYsunIOBJA/o7zkmhivqx FdYGMLVVY7nS8G/LtoilN2nE+2yvaYFsu32dT/CZMHfuQtUPHb1ZOn2G921cafsx PZ/o4XgBSVsEXhouvShz8WJjaN7ViUdtuWKrVyArAVOHLpaPf65U008W+fQ+Am4G mL+SPB5jZe0= =jLxP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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