reading a remote HTML file

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Without knowing anything at all about network programming, I've been
asked to write a program that will download or read an HTML document
from a remote site.  Only the HTML file, not any graphics that are
associated with it.  Problem is I don't know where to start looking to
achieve this.

What should I read or where should I look to find out about this ?



BTW: thanks Kevin, Glynn for the answers about the make file.