Re: lynx-dev Converting HTML to Text with Lynx

[John R. Powell]

What version of LYNX are you using that you do not get the links in the
dump?
Our version is Lynx Version 2.7ac-0.36 (1997)

Thanx

-John


On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Philip Webb wrote:
>000110 Klaus Weide wrote:
>> 000109 John Powell wrote:
>>> Is there anyway to get LYNX (lynx -dump ...) to convert HTML to Text

>>> without putting in the [link] notations throughout the document
>-- snip --
>> What [link] notations?  In general you cannot completely eliminate
them,
>> tbut they probably shouldn't be there for "good" HTML.
>
>maybe he means link numbers,
>which can be suppressed using  lynx.cfg  or the Options Menu.

>This has been discussed before.

>It seems to me and at least on other lynx-dev reader that it makes
sense to
>NEVER show link numbers in -dump mode, since they only make sense for
>interactive use.  I'm not sure if this has been fixed, since I admit
that I am
>not seeing the problem anymore..  That is, my daily emailed imdb (done
via
>a crontab entry that calls lynx on the page and mails it to me) doesn't
have
>link numbers anymore, and I _don't_ have a -nonumber_links or whatever
it's
>called.  I do have a "-crawl" and don't remember why I have that so
it's
>probably related to this.

>Sorry for the rambling, but basically, just another vote for making
link
>numbers never show up in -dump mode.