Thanks Dan
The double quotes around the URL fixed the problem re identical data. I will
look into the archives to see if I can find info on Piping into other
programs to get a plain text output. I am not only new to curl but text web
browsers in general.
regards ... Don
 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: the curl tool
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:17:14 PM
To: curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se
Subject: Re: Problem downloading & saving to local file Win32
 
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:00:53PM -0300, Don MacLean wrote:
> problem 1 .... my output in file FDT1nws.txt has loads of HTML code
followed by
> the table data I want and then loads more of HTML code. Is there any way
of
> simply getting the table data formatted preferably in how it looks in say
Word
> or on the web site itself using IE ?

Curl just downloads files, it doesn't interpret them. If you want plain text

you could pipe the HTML into a program like lynx or w3m to convert it.
If you want it to look how it looks in Word or IE, you'll need to pass the
file into Word or IE.

> problem 2 .... my output in file FDT2nws.txt is the same as the output in
> FDT1nws.txt but clearly it should not be as the web site itself using IE
shows
> different data. Is there any way of fixing this problem ?

Try using "double quotes" around your URLs. Some of the characters in them
are probably being interpreted by the command shell in a way different from
what you want.

>>> Dan
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Received on 2006-04-13