[NTLUG:Discuss] html to text question
Fred James
fredjame at concentric.net
Tue Jun 25 08:21:40 CDT 2002
The requirement is to convert HTML report files to text files,
preserving the tabular format. In your experience with w3m, do you
think this would work?
Lance Simmons wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:39:35PM -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
>
>>View the site with w3m and cut and paste. It does a fairly good job
>>at handling tables for an ascii browser.
>>
>
> w3m also has inline image support (debian package w3m-img), so if you're
> in an xsession, you see graphics as well. It's still an ascii browser,
> but with graphics.
>
>
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