From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 11 8:38:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084C837B988 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13C1Ig-000NyS-00; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:46:18 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13C1Ig-000CFb-00; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:46:18 +0100 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:46:18 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Mark Thomas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HTML => text port - does one exist? Message-ID: <20000711154618.T11000@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000711101542.00b94a60@mail.clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lG9v85r552aFjg4G" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000711101542.00b94a60@mail.clark.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --lG9v85r552aFjg4G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mark Thomas wrote: > I have a few fairly simple but large HTML docs I maintain, and I've been= =20 > looking through the ports for something that will allow me to take the HT= ML=20 > down to a reasonably formatted text document. I see several ports for goi= ng=20 > from to HTML, but not much going the other way. >=20 > 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. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D --lG9v85r552aFjg4G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --lG9v85r552aFjg4G-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message