Re: Save As - how do I save html files as text files without thehtml markups?

[Bill Crawford <bill syseng netcom net uk>]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Bob Bourne wrote:

> Larry Grover wrote in part:
> > With netscape, if you select "save as", you get a choice of 'text',
> > 'source' (html) or 'postscript'.
>
> This is true but the Netscape version of the saved text is totally different
> to the version delivered by IE5.5 - please see attachment - Example.txt.

 The Netscape version is actually saving information that IE appears
to be losing.  The alt= attributes from images (which are intended to
provide something for a text-only environment) are being dropped, but
Netscape is saving them.  I would consider that more correct behaviour
although I can see what you're trying to do.

 If you want just the visible text from the screen, cut & paste.

 A more useful suggestion might be to use lynx (text mode browser)
instead, it has an option "-dump" to save formatted output.

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