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Re: LYNX-DEV lynx -dump variations?
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Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV lynx -dump variations? |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:59:57 -0600 (CST) |
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, xin wu wrote:
> Hi,
> lynx -dump <file> can convert the <file> from HTML to ASCII format.
> But when I use this program in a CGI script I would like that the
> "lynx -dump" can read the <file> directly from a form variable
> instead of from a disk file by which to reduce the CGI script processing
> time. Now i have to save the form variable to a temp file and then
> convert it to a text format.
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> xin wu
> Univ. of Illinois at UC
On some operating systems you can refer to standard input as if it were a
(special) file. For example, on a Unix system try:
echo '<TITLE>stdin</TITLE>¡Lynx <EM>can</EM><BR>do this!' \
| lynx -force_html -dump -underscore /dev/fd/0
Klaus
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