A number of peaple have asked me to send a copy or to repost my script. Here it is. Have fun. Cees, -- Forwarded message from Cees van de Griend <cees-list@griend.xs4all.nl> -- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:09:19 +0100 From: Cees van de Griend <cees-list@griend.xs4all.nl> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] posting of html email On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 04:49:19PM -0800, eros@anduin.eldar.org wrote:

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I have problems reading html email that is posted to suse-linux-e. Would it be possible to have people post only test email to the list?

I appreciate any flexibility people could have in this matter.

HTML is regarded by many as annoying and rude to post to a mailing list; ESPECIALLY a Unix/Linux one.

Personally, I just delete it.

HTML mail is no problem if you have an entry in your mailcap file. This is a list with many new users, so the users with experience can simply addjust theis mailcap. Add: ----- text/html; html2txt; copiousoutput ----- to ~/.mailcap and put the Perl-script (attached) into your path. I hope this small script is usefull. It just requires 'lynx' and 'perl'. Greetings, Cees. -- wej Heghchugh vay', SuvtaH SuvwI'. A warrior fights to the death. Mark Okrand, "Star Trek: The Klingon Way - A Warrier's Guide" #!/usr/bin/perl # !/usr/bin/perl -w #------------------------------------------------------------------------- # File: html2txt.pl # Author: Cees van de Griend <cvdg@pobox.com> # Copyright: (c) 1999 C.A. van de Griend # Date: 19990225 # Version: 1.10 # Description: Transform a HTML-file to a TXT-file. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # use strict; # use diagnostics; # my $DEBUG = 1; # I want debug information... my $DEBUG = 0; # I don't want debug information... # # MAIN # { my @text = (); # array: @text my $lynx = "/usr/bin/lynx"; # program: lynx my $html = "/tmp/html2txt.$$.html"; # filename: html my $text = "/tmp/html2txt.$$.txt"; # filename: text # # Lynx can only read 'real .html text-files', i.e. # - a regular text file # - with extention .html # So save STDIN in the file $html. # # N.B.: $_ is the default variable. # open HTML, ">$html" or die "Can't open $html: $!"; while (<>) { # read STDIN into $_ print HTML $_; # write to $html } close HTML or die "Can't close $html: $!"; # # Read STDIN from 'lynx'. # Save the read line into the array: @text. # Write the read line to STDOUT. # open LYNX, "$lynx -dump $html|" or die "Can't open $lynx: $!"; while (<LYNX>) { # read $_ from 'lynx' push @text, $_; # add read line into array @text print $_; # write read line to STDOUT } close LYNX or die "Can't close $lynx: $!"; # # If debug, save the array @text into the file $text. # if ($DEBUG) { open TEXT, ">$text" or die "Can't open $text: $!"; foreach (@text) { # get line in $_ print TEXT $_; # write line to $text } close TEXT or die "Can't close $text: $!"; } exit; } #------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Log: # 19990225 First version. #------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- 'utbe' bel. Pleasure is nonessential. Mark Okrand, "Star Trek: The Klingon Way - A Warrier's Guide" - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>