HTM2TXT v 1.0, Jul.01,1996 by Otto R„der

Description:

   HTM2TXT.CMD is a REXX script which extracts HTML-tags from
   .HTML-files used in Internet www-communication and stores
   the remaining text into an ASCII-file.

Group:

   HTM2TXT belongs to group OS/2 - Editors

Freeware:

   HTM2TXT may be distributed freely under the following conditions.
   Copyright notices must NOT be removed, all files contained in the file
   inventory below must be distributed together (you may not remove any
   files), and you may not charge for the program.

   If you find the program useful then send a post-card (picture of
   the location where you live) to:

       Otto R„der
       Hauptstrasse 61B/13
       A3001 Mauerbach
       ---------------
       Austria

Prerequisites:

   HTM2TXT requires OS/2 and REXX.

   It has been developed and tested under OS/2 Warp,
   there is no intention to move it to other platforms.

Distribution:

   The following files are contained in HTM2TXT1.ZIP:

    HTM2TXT.CMD       96-07-01 the REXX command
    README.TXT                 documentation, this file
    FILE_ID.DIZ                Id-file

Installation:

   To install HTM2TXT just UNZIP the HTM2TXT1.ZIP file and place the
   command into a directory contained in your CONFIG.SYS PATH= statement.

Usage:

   From an OS/2 command line start HTM2TXT:

     htm2txt filename.htm

   Make shure filename.htm is in the current directory.

   HTM2TXT will create an output file 'filename.txt' and it will
   start an editor to view this file.

   Following statements may be changed to customize result:

     line 28: linemax=80    maximum line length in output file.
                            Any text longer will be split to
                            output lines not longer than 'linemax'

     line 29: pixlbyt=6     when <td width="nnnPIX"> then the
                            column width in tables is determined
                            by: nnn/pixlbyt.

     line 30: editor='e'    the name of an ASCII editor to display
                            result file. It may be changed to the
                            installations favoured editor.

     line 41: consts=       this is a table of variables to substitute
                            special characters. I could not find an
                            official table in any web-site, so this
                            table is a collection of variables i have
                            seen up to today.

Warranty:

   The program is distributed on an as-is basis.
   It tries to extract as much text as possible,
   however, i am sure, there are some special forms
   of tags which i missed.
   Normally such tags are simply ignored.

   There is no guarantee to get certain results
   nor is any guarantee to avoid damages of existing files.

   Note: In the current directory the program will
         overwrite any file with filename of
         input-file and a file extension of .TXT, eg.: filename.TXT !

Comments:

   Comments and recommendations pls to:

         oraeder@ibm.net