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Re: text?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel.stenberg_at_netinsight.se>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 08:42:41 +0200

michael_lerman wrote:

> I personnally need this feature. So What I do is to convert the html page to
> txt after the page is dowloaded.

It takes a whole lot of HTML awareness. Just skipping the tags is not what most
people would like. Tables, frames and stuff needs to be taken into account.

Curl does not understand HTML and I can't see any reason why it should. Lynx
already does this kind of conversion, as well as a few other tools.

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 Daniel Stenberg, Software Developer
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Received on 2000-05-02