To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Email & HTML & 1st Friday Meeting
From: shofmann at mindspring.com (Scott Hofmann)
Date: 09 Apr 2002 15:34:13 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>>>>> "MW" == Michael Walsh <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> writes:

 >> shofmann at mindspring.com 04/08/02 11:46PM >>>
 >> If you're working on a system which supports PERL (pretty much all
 >> unix-like
 >> systems such as linux, and Windows but with some considerable hacking)
 >> you can use the handy-dandy "striptags" script available at
 >> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/3472/striptags.txt. A google for
 >> "striptags" turned up several other versions in other languages (such as
 >> Java and Python).
 >>

 MW> This may come as a shock, but I suspect there may be a number of people on
 MW> this list who haven't the foggiest idea what you said.

"striptags" is a small program which removes all tags from HTML text. It does a
fair-to-poor job of converting HTML into readable plain text, but its usable
on simple HTML (such as that generated by many mail programs).

scott

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