From John Fri Mar 8 14:25:42 1996 Article: 14157 of comp.infosystems.www.announce From: John RisbySubject: Free HTML to ASCII converter Date: Sat, 2 Mar 96 08:39:44 MET Organization: Scanline A couple of weeks ago, a company posted an advert here for a shareware ($10) html to ascii converter. I mentioned that I had written one back in 1994 and if anyone wanted the source or DOS .exe they could have it for free. The response was quite amazing, so I've put in on our ftp server. Feel free to use the .exe or source for whatever (legal!) purpose you choose, without charge. The files can be found at:- ftp://ftp.u-net.com/com/scanline/html2txt/html2txt.zip Regards -- John Risby Manchester, England Scanline: Design - Typesetting - Printing - MultiMedia WWW: http://www.scanline.com/ From compulov@cybercomm.net Tue Feb 27 14:30:04 1996 Article: 51547 of comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html From: compulov@cybercomm.net (Leigh H. Koven) Subject: Announce: Quail Stripper 2.0 - Strips HTML from a document Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 21:14:52 MET QuailWare proudly presents.... Quail Stripper ver 2.0 ----------------------- A DOS utility that strips HTML codes from a text file. In the past if you downloaded a page from the web and wanted to read it, you had to sort through all the HTML codes. Those days are past. Quail Stripper removes the HTML codes from the file, without touching the text. New In Version 2.0: ------------------- You can now mark certain sections of a file to be stripped. This program is shareware. Registration is $10. Quail Stripper is available for download from http://www.cybercomm.net/~compulov/qstrip2s.exe and soon from SimTel and it's mirrors. It has also been posted to the newsgroup comp.binaries.ibm.pc. 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Or, check the keyservers for key id 0xEFBF1D49 * Key fingerprint: 33 32 F9 1B 53 51 7B 3B E9 E2 00 74 08 19 F2 FB -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From John Tue Feb 27 14:32:38 1996 Article: 51699 of comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html From: John Risby <john@enville.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Announce: Quail Stripper 2.0 - Strips HTML from a document Date: Sat, 17 Feb 96 18:54:53 MET Organization: Scanline From sorth@oz.net Thu Jan 25 17:28:11 1996 Article: 46713 of comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html From: sorth@oz.net (Steve Orth) Subject: HTML to TXT (ASCII) Converter -->HTMLess Version 1.0 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 20:21:28 MET Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net) HTMLess is a simple DOS utility that coverts any HTML document to a ASCII txt file, formatting the text file based on the HTML tags. You can now view HTML docs without a web browser or spell check HTML docs without stopping at every HTML tag. The program produces two files: the formatted txt file and a file containing the HTML tags. Visit the HTMLess page to download this free utility. Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 17:05:43 -0700 From: Scott Baker Subject: html to ascii converter I've just finished writing an HTML to ASCII converter for MSDOS and Windows. It can be found at the web address: http://www.primenet.com/~smbaker/htm2asc/sbh2a.html It's still in the early stages, but please add it to your list. Thanks Scott Baker From pklose@ix.netcom.com Wed Apr 26 10:26:01 1995 Article: 28344 of comp.infosystems.www.misc From: pklose@ix.netcom.com (Paul Klose) Subject: Re: HTML -> ASCII ? Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 18:44:04 GMT-1:00 In <9504242213.AA14250@cobalt.middlebury.edu> otisg@cobalt.middlebury.edu writes: > >I have some HTML documents I want to throw away but I want to keep the >contents of it without HTML tags, so I guess I would need something like >HTML to ASCII converter. I archied for it, but I found nothing. >Does something like that even exist ?? If so, could you please point me >in the right direction ? > I had the same problem, so I wrote an HTML to ASCII converter. It has some limitations right now -- The input name must have the extension htm and the output is automatically named .txt and stored in the same directory (overwriting any .txt file with the same name); it is limited to 32KB files; and it's not extensively tested (in terms of eliminating all possible HTML codes). But I have been using it personally for months. I had planned to clean up all of the problems and release it as shareware, but never got around to it. I'll send it to anybody who E-mail's me a request. Let me know if your mail reader supports MIME or if you want me to send it UUencoded. Sincerely, Paul Klose From bkyan@umcc.umcc.umich.edu Wed Apr 26 10:42:19 1995 Article: 28414 of comp.infosystems.www.misc From: bkyan@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Benjamin Kyan) Subject: Re: HTML -> ASCII ? Date: 26 Apr 1995 00:43:58 -0400 Organization: UMCC, Ann Arbor, MI, USA I have a Perl Script that converts HTML to plain ASCII. Please mail me if anyone would like to have a copy. Benjamin Kyan CyberSphynx Communications bkyan@glolink.com