Date:  Fri, 07 Jun 2002 06:40:57 -0400
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: PMStripper 1.26 released

From: "Don Hawkinson" <dwhawkatintcon.net> 


I have released PMStripper 1.26 and uploaded the shareware version to
hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu) as pms_126.zip.  It is currently in the
/pb/incoming directory, but it will be moved to
/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/util 

This PM utility strips HTML codes from Web pages, leaving only the text
and optionally the URLs.   While the layout of tables and lists is lost
during stripping, data is sorted to separate lines for legibility. It now
translates iso8859-1 character codes (windows codepage) to codepage 437 or
codepage 850 character codes.   

Although Netscape will save a web page as plain ascii text, it also saves
the layout of the page.  Using PMStripper as the HTML source viewer with
Netscape will make it easier obtain just the text of an article posted on
a web page. 

URL: http://www.cottagesoft.com/~dwhawk/share.html
hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pms_126.zip
search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pms_126


New in PMStripper 1.26

Added accelerator keys Alt+1 , Alt+2, Alt+3, Alt+C, and Ctrl+E

Alt+1 toggles the "discard the first 100 lines" option and then reloads
the source file

Alt+2 toggles the "discard the first 200 lines" option and then reloads
the source file

Alt+3 toggles the "discard the first 300 lines" option and then reloads
the source file.  Alt+C performs the same function as ALT+3. Since
"discard the first 300 lines" works best for the CNN site, I selected
Alt+C as a reminder. 

Ctrl+E marks the text from the current cursor position to the end of text.

The following key combinations work in PMStripper and many other OS/2
applications.

Shift+Home       moves the cursor to the top of the text
Shift+End        moves the cursor to the end of the text
Ctrl+Shift+Home  selects the text from the current position to 
                  the top of the text
Ctrl+Shift+End   selects the text from the current position to 
                  the end of the text


New in PMStripper 1.25

Added menu entries under "Strip Options" to discard the first  100, 200,
or 300 lines.  Using one of these options may  eliminate most of unwanted
text from sidebar links that appear on the left side of many web pages. 
On some sites (such as CNN.com) the sidebar links can result in several
pages of text and blank lines that are not part of the wanted information
on a web page. 

New in PMStripper 1.24

Added 'Translate iso8859-1 character codes' option under 'Strip Options'. 
Fixed bug in how html comments are stripped. 

New in PMStripper 1.23

Added  'Hard code word wrap' menu item under "File" on the menubar. This
option adds CR-LF pairs to each line in the display window to make the
current word wrap permanent. This should make it easier to print the
stripped text. 

 * * June Shareware Special * *
http://www.cottagesoft.com/~dwhawk/june.html



Don Hawkinson , author of CCA, DH-Grep-PM,
PMStripper, Pastry Box, and DH_ClipSave/2
http://www.cottagesoft.com/~dwhawk
dwhawkatintcon.net


                           

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