PillarSoft

Html Code Stripping Support:

Stripping html code is easy right from the desktop once you plug in HTM2TXT. The htm2txt1.zip file can be downloaded from the PillarSoft site, Hobbes or any of the usual OS/2 FTP sites. Just copy the "Htm2TxT.cmd" file into the Enhanced E directory and the Enhanced E's will do the rest. Load any html (or htm) file and click "Strip Html" or hit the hot key "Ctrl+h". The red light beside the history list will glow while Htm2Txt is quietly working. Be aware that a large file will take a few seconds to be processed. The TXT version of the file will be saved with the original html files' name and a ".txt" extention in the original files' directory.

Htm2Txt has command line options if you want to investigate it further. The editor sends commands that limit it to processing only the object file but it will allow chaining of any files mentioned in the object htm file plus a few other little goodies.

Otto Raeder, the writer of Htm2Txt, has done a real nice job with this utility. It would have taken alot of work to do what he has done so rather than reinvent the wheel I asked Otto if I could include his code in this editor. He graciously said "Go for it" but rather than do it that way (I'd feel like a kid cheating on an exam!) I decided just to make the Enhanced EE work with it like a plugin so I won't be inadvertantly taking credit for his work. He distributes it freely and I would like to say thank you anyway to Otto, and thanks from the OS/2 community for all your work.

In keeping with the free nature of Otto's work the HTM2TXT command file has been incorporated into the freeware version of the Enhanced E also. Hopefully this combo will get alot of good, hard use out of the users of OS/2.