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- StripHTML v1.0
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- Why this program?
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- If you are familiar with Internet, you'll know that the texts you view using
- Netscape or Mosaic are created using HTML. This is the Hypertext Marking
- Language. As long as you view them with the formentioned programs all is ok.
- But as soon as you load them up in any word processor, text editor or text
- viewer, you'll notice there is a lot of trash between the text.
- This trash is meant to set text into different styles (bold, italics and
- underlined). Using a word processor/text editor you can manualy remove these
- HTML-commands, but that's a bit tedious...
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- Now there is StripHTML v1.0. With this program you can automatically strip
- (i.e. remove) all the unwanted HTML-commands, so you'll end up with a pure
- ASCII-text with nothing more than the text as it was before the HTML-
- commands were added. Now you can print them right away from your favourite
- word processor, or just crunch them for future use.
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- StripHTML removes ALL text that is placed between 'smaller than' and 'greater
- than' ('<' and '>') characters. I know this a pretty dumb way to do the job,
- perhaps the procedure will be more intelligent in a next version...
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- StripHTML will also remove those dumb PC-style line-feed attributes from
- the text for free! :')
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- A word on HREFS
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- A lot of the texts on Internet contain so called HREFS, which are links to
- other pages/pictures on the net. These are often very usefull to trace
- links to interesting places you want to visit at a later day. The HREFS are
- also placed between <> and would normally be deleted by StripHTML.
- To prevent this from happening, I added the Kill HREFS-button. If this button
- is inactive, the HREFS will be kept, else they will be deleted.
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- How do I use the program?
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- - Start StripHTML from your workbench or CLI.
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- You'll see two buttons with the text 'No File'. The left one is the source and the
- right one is the destination. If you click on one of these buttons you will see
- a file-requester appear. From the 'Source' button you can select the HTML-file
- you want to strip, from the 'Destination' button you can enter the file to wich
- the stripped tekst will be written.
- The 'Strip' button will start the conversion from HTML to ASCII. With large documents
- this can take a few moments. When the stripping is done, the 'File' buttons will
- reset to the original ('No File') button titles. (Some room for improvement here!)
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- StripHTML v1.0 is FreeWare, wich means you don't have to pay any money for using it.
- You're free to do with it whatever you want, as long as you keep this doc file and
- the executeable intact...
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- Sorry for the strange layout I chose, but I wrote this program in a very short period.
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- Future improvement (maybe):
- -DisplayBeep when conversion is done.
- -Progress bar during conversion.
- -Conversion of HTML to Amiga ANSII. ->that would be nice
- -Print options???
- -HTML viewer incorporation...? (mmm... that sounds nice...)
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- This program has not been tested properly, if you find any bugs or have any suggestions, write
- a letter to the following address :
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- Ronald Roemeling (aka Valkyr of LODGE)
- Graaf Edzardstraat 46
- 9902 HV Appingedam
- HOLLAND
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- or e-mail a message to:
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- rcflipp@dds.nl
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- I wish you many happy hours with this usefull programm. Have a nice day {:=).
- Valkyr 1995, for programs that do not suck in any way !!
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