Re: convert html to text

[ben <benfoley@rcn.com>]

On Friday 18 October 2002 02:56 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:54:43PM -0300, Rogerio Acquadro wrote:
> > Try html2txt7
> >
> > On Thu, 30 May 2002, ben wrote:
> > > i seem to remember somebody mentioning an app or script that converts
> > > html to text. i've searched the archives but can't find any reference
> > > to that. anybody have a clue?
>
> Any text based browsers do this with -dump or --dump option.
>
> links
> w3m
> lynx
> ...

thanks, osamu. the original post was way back in may. it seems that rogerio's 
response has taken phenomenally longer than the mere hours of delay about 
which some list members have recently complained. however, i do appreciate 
the additional information about the text browsers. it seems they have a 
standard functionality that most gui browsers don't possess.

ben