Re: HTML->TEXT FAQs and their sizes

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Thu, 6 Jul 95 12:30:52 EDT

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> I'm in the process of finishing up code which takes my HTML source, dumps it
> to plain text, parses it, and saves it to a text file for posting to inews.
> It's a larger file than my original FAQ-text-file-made-for-posting because of
> all the formatting involved in the HTML.

Did you try "lynx -dump your_URL > filename" ?

>
> I've totally forgotten what's an acceptable size limit for posting an FAQ
> before splitting things into parts, and with a larger text file now it just
> might matter. Anyone?
>

64 KB is the recommended size limit. If you have > 64 KB, the guidelines
suggest breaking it into multiple parts.

> Thanks muchly.
>
> - Joe
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