Readme for HTML2TXT

This program (availble for DOS (html2txt.zip), OS/2 (html2tx2.zip) and these so calles OS Win85 and WinNoT (html2t32.zip)) converts HTML-Files into properly formated and readable ASCII (CP850 or ISO-8859-1) textfiles. It removes all tags, converts &; special character and uses <h1>-<h6>, <hr>, <ul>, <li>, <ol>, <td> etc. tags for formatting.

You can select weather get ISO-8859-1 (Windoze) or CP850 (DOS) as output.

This Software is freeware and has a lot of omissions, but it is IMHO very useful.

The history: I have written a documentation in HTML. But severeal folks ask me to publish it in plain Text format too.

So i looked for a converter program and I found many programs, but none of them

removes all tags
replace the special characters (the famous Umlaute!)
makes basic formatting

so I have to write my own...

usage:

      HTML2TXT.EXE [-aw?h] [ infileHTML [outfileTXT] ]

if infileHTML or outfileTXT are omitted, standardinput / standardoutput will be used, e.g.

      HTML2TXT <faq.htm >faq.txt

Commandlineparameter:

       -p   stops every 25 line and waits for keystroke 
       -d   uses charset CP 850 (DOS) for output (Default) 
       -w   uses charset ISO-8859-1 (Windows) for output

Things to come

Line length parameter (now fix at 63 or sth.)
support of the <alt>-parameter
support of the <align>-parameter
Better support of the <table>-Tag
Drag and drop for PM and Windoze (?)
Txt2Html-Program (??)

Newer versions can be downloaded at http://www.hsp.de/~koch/soft_htm.htm.

Written by W.Koch, DG9EP (koch@hsp.de)