Re: html to text convert?

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Adalbert Goertz (adalbert.goertz@pikespeak.net) wrote:
: Is there a html to text converter for the apple2?
: Sometimes a get html messages , and I would want to convert it
: to plain text (ie remove all the strage html tags).
: Does hypercard offer such a converter?

First of all, anyone who is sending HTML email ought to be taken out and shot.

Second, the easiest way to convert HTML to text is to pipe it through a
web browser such as Lynx or SIS.  Of course, that requires a shell account
for access to Lynx, or a copy of SIS (I presume SIS can browse files...I
don't have it myself...)

Third, I occasionally get multipart HTML email.  Usually, the message
includes both a text version and an HTML version...usually the text
version comes first.  But when I use a MIME-compliant mail reader (PINE),
the plain text version gets suppressed and all I see is the HTML-ified
crap because Micro$oft Outlook does not use the proper headers.  When I
use a non-MIME mail reader (such as mailx), I can see the plain text.

Even worse are messages marked as using a "Windows" character set.  PINE
assumes it can't display those characters and won't even let me read the
message.  It's time for Micro$oft to get out of the news and email client
business until they can learn to do it right!

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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