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From: gene@calph.physics.sunysb.edu (Eugene Tyurin)
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Subject: Re: HTML REMOVER
Date: 29 Mar 1996 09:10:16 -0500
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Don't know how much this will help you under MS-DOG, but here's a
little dirty sed script I wrote (works fine for my purposes):

#
# html2txt.sed -- Strip HTML commands.
# Copyleft (Cl) Eugene Tyurin 
# Last modified: Wed Feb 21 17:20:41 EST 1996
#
# Assumes that a single HTML command doesn't take more than 2 lines.
#
s/<[^<]*>/ /g
/</{
N
s/ *\n/ /
s/<[^<]*>/ /g
}

-- 
Eugene Tyurin - PhD student at ITP, Stony Brook U.
http://www.physics.sunysb.edu/~gene/