Re: clean html text?

["Rick Kerman" <rkerman@mail.bright.net>]

Adalbert Goertz <be404@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote in article
<59mjru$qia@news.ysu.edu>...
 
> When I download Text.html files I get all kind of control junk with it.
> Is there a program which would remove these html.characters to make the
> text morre readable?
> What I have been doing to date is use the <remove and replace> command in
> AppleWorks to clean this up -which is time consuming.

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) uses only ASCII.  There is no
such thing as an "html.character".  If you are getting "junk", you probably
have a protocol incompatibility.  For most of the stuff on the WorldWide
Web,
you need a program that supports HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP).