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diff --git a/textproc/html2text/DESCR b/textproc/html2text/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..31d4b658963 --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/html2text/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ + Html2text reads HTML 3.2 documents from the input-urls, formats each +into a stream of ASCII characters and writes the result to standard +output (or into output-file, if the -o command line option is used). +It also accepts syntactically incorrect input and attempts to inter- +pret it "reasonably". + + Documents that are specified by a URL that begins with "http:" are +retrieved with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. URLs that begin with +"file:" and URLs that do not contain a colon specify local files. + + Html2text was written by Arno Unkrig and is available under a +BSD-style licence. |