automatic HTML to ASCII conversion

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Lutz Prechelt (prechelt@ira.uka.de)
Thu, 16 Jun 1994 14:28:42 +0200

For a while now, I have converted "my" FAQ (comp.ai.neural-nets) to HTML.
The HTML version is the only one that I maintain and I generate a text
version from it using the "File: Save As" function of Mosaic.

My question is: Is there a nice way to do this automatically, i.e. without
starting an interactive program and clicking buttons ?
I would like to only edit the HTML version and have the text version
generated by my posting script automatically.

I have looked for HTML-to-text converters and found only one that can
be called from a script (it was a convert function of an alphanumeric
WWW browser --- sorry, forgot the name). The problem with this was that
I found the output format simply awkward.

The Mosaic "Formatted Text" output format is quite nice, but there seems
to be no way to execute the conversion non-interactively.
(Or am I missing something about Mosaic here?)

Any suggestions ?

Lutz

Lutz Prechelt (email: prechelt@ira.uka.de) | Whenever you
Institut fuer Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation | complicate things,
Universitaet Karlsruhe; 76128 Karlsruhe; Germany | they get
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