ritcey 
07-03-2002
03:23 PM ET (US)
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but can links do the --dump thing, like lynx (and the referenced CGI) can? I don't see such an option (or am I blind?) Edited 07-03-2002 03:24 PM
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Allan J. Heim 
07-03-2002
02:21 PM ET (US)
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And links is better still. It handles tables and frames with no trouble.
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ritcey 
07-03-2002
12:11 PM ET (US)
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lynx has been doing this for years (and looks a bit nicer, IMHO):
lynx --dump http://boingboing.net
lynx is available for all unix-like OSs (including OS X), and, I believe, for win32...
Or am I missing something?
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Cory Doctorow 
07-03-2002
12:10 PM ET (US)
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Cuz it doesn't work. When I enter a URL and submit it just reloads the form-page.
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Aaron Swartz 
07-03-2002
12:08 PM ET (US)
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If you want to see your own site ASCIInated, there's a nice form:
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text
(dunno why Cory didn't link to it).
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brucee 
07-03-2002
11:05 AM ET (US)
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i'm saying that the bug is a crock and not a feature.
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Cory Doctorow 
07-03-2002
11:00 AM ET (US)
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No, it's not a crock, it's a beta-app that Aaron whipped up yesterday. It's not anything final, and one imagines that fixing this bug will be trivial.
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brucee 
07-03-2002
10:55 AM ET (US)
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it's a crock
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peoplepop 
07-03-2002
10:42 AM ET (US)
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hey brucee. That's a feature... better css support than Netscape ;-)
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brucee 
07-03-2002
10:03 AM ET (US)
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the third line of the example is hardly satisfactory
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peoplepop 
07-03-2002
09:35 AM ET (US)
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well, my justferfun business is asciirock.com so i predictably i think this is the coolest damn thing since fresh bread.
i think i'm gonna pass all the offsite links through this on my site!
i think i'll write to suggest a version that preserves links though - not true ascii. just html/head/body and a tags
chas.
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