On 19 Jun 1998 jari(_dot_)aalto(_at_)poboxes(_dot_)com wrote:
|Fri 1998-06-19 Timothy J Luoma
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| I'm getting a LOT of HTML email now. 99.9999999% of these are just regular
| text by people using M$ software that has HTML on by default.
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| I'm sure someone has written a program script with lynx to convert HTML to
| regular ASCII text, but can't find any references to it
Here is perl one liner:
perl -0777 -pe 's/<[^>]*>//g'
Can't then who was author of this elegant snippet :-)
Wouldn't it be eaiser to just snip off the offending html section since
most of this has a text and an html part to it? And re-do the mime type
information.
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