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Date:      Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:40:45 -0400
From:      parv <parv@subdimension.com>
To:        Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com>
Cc:        demon@FreeBSD.ORG, dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: latest ports/www/links version breaks -stable release build
Message-ID:  <20020702204045.GA22761@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <200207021140.EAA16826@eskimo.com>
References:  <20020702082402.GI393@cavia.pp.ru> <200207021140.EAA16826@eskimo.com>

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in message <200207021140.EAA16826@eskimo.com>,
wrote Ross Lippert thusly...
>
> 
> I don't know if anyone wants to try something this radical but
> www/w3m is a very good html to text converter.
>
> cat *.html | w3m -dump -cols 80 -T text/html
> or
> w3m -dump -cols 80 -T text/html file.html

i am w/ you.


> then again, I don't use links, so I don't know what features it
> has which make it the desirable choice.

last time i brought it up (for docproj on -doc list), i was cited
its dependency(ies) as a negative point(s) enough to use links.


  - parv

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