From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 13:35:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marta2.ip.pt (marta.ip.pt [195.23.132.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6138137B5D0 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:35:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cgd@teleweb.pt) Received: (qmail 584 invoked by uid 1008); 17 Jul 2000 20:35:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO atum.ip.pt) (195.23.132.7) by marta2.ip.pt with SMTP; 17 Jul 2000 20:35:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 17592 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2000 20:35:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO teclis08i.teleweb.pt) (195.23.165.163) by atum.ip.pt with SMTP; 17 Jul 2000 20:35:17 -0000 Received: from teleweb.pt (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teclis08i.teleweb.pt (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01138; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:36:35 +0100 Message-ID: <3971FEDF.DE855D55@teleweb.pt> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:28:47 +0100 From: "Carlos J. G. Duarte" Reply-To: cgd@teleweb.pt Organization: Teleweb, SA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.13 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Paul Branston , Charles Randall , Mark Thomas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HTML => text port - does one exist? References: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B301301C77EB4@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com> <20000712151552.E11000@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Paul Branston wrote: > > > since lynx is deprecated in the ports tree > > Lynx is WHAT? That's the first I've heard of it. I suspect you're > thinking of when it was marked FORBIDDEN because of security problems, > but this is no longer the case. > well, w3m is somehow better than lynx, smaller and faster (these last two, with no contest, for sure), altough its not fully featured as lynx. as for the options for text conversion, is the same as lynx: w3m -dump x.html > x.txt one can add -cols to specify pretended width: w3m -cols 72 -dump x.html > x.txt -- carlos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message