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Date:      Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:46:18 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Thomas <thomas@clark.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HTML => text port - does one exist?
Message-ID:  <20000711154618.T11000@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000711101542.00b94a60@mail.clark.net>
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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 <something> 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.

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