This was an, er, improvement from older versions. If you can find an
older Lynx, save it in a safe place. (Sorry, no detailed idea what
version numbers and so on. The people who actually +use+ Lynx can
probably tell you that ;^)
Of course, you can always post-process the output from Lynx but the
older output format was certainly easier to deal with. (I'll sketch it
here, though: Replace all /\[[0-9]+\]/:s with nothing, and chop off
the last portion of consecutive lines. Easy enough if you know Perl.)
The nice thing about lynx -dump is, above all, that you can run it
unattended, like in a biweekly cron job or from a makefile. You could
always try to fake this by running something like Expect around Lynx
to feed it the necessary keystrokes, and stay with the
fetch-and-print-to-local-file procedure.
Just some random thoughts,
/* era */
PS. The last time this was discussed, Vic Metcalfe sounded like he was
thinking about writing SGML authoring tools to implement all of this
in a more structured and extensible way. I guess I did too, passively.
Whatever happened to that? I'm still interested in contributing if I
can, only it'll have to wait until +when+ I can :-)
-- See <http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/> for mantra, disclaimer, etc.
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