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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2007 12:07:52 -0700
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what's the easiest way to de-html-ize files?
Message-ID:  <20070514190752.GA11110@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070512195437.GA92218@thought.org>
References:  <20070512195437.GA92218@thought.org>

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On Sat, May 12, 2007, Gary Kline wrote:
>
>
>	This is for those of us who appreciate ASCII or straight
>	ISO_8859-15 rather than marked up files.  I have slapped together
>	a crude C program that does scotch (or *cleanse*) text of
>	<B></B> and so on.   Still... is there some standalone converter
>	that gets rids of markup more elegantly?   Something where i
>	can say

The ``lynx'' text browser can generate plain text from HTML.

lynx -dump -force_html filename

Bill
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