Re: Is there a way to STRIP HTML when saving a file

Robert Hawk Geeslin (geeslin@VMS.OCOM.OKSTATE.EDU)
Wed, 5 Jun 1996 20:14:26 EDT

Richard Lee Holbert <rlh@myriad.net> wrote:
> I am having fits trying to work with files I save off the WWW because of
> all the HTML codes and stuff in them. Someone told me there was a
> DOS based program that you could run the files thru and it would strip
> everything and leave it as a straigh ASCII file. Is there such a
> beast?? Or ANYTHING else someone out there might be aware of to
> help this feeble old man out here. TIA!!!

Under Windoze, just highlight, copy to the clipboard, paste to the
Notepad and save it. Under DOS... Hmmm.... Don't know off hand. All the
DOS browsers I ever used let me save the text.

But you are prob using a Mac?
Cordially,
R*

Robert Hawk Geeslin
geeslin@VMS.OCOM.OKSTATE.EDU