On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 02:51:42 -0600
Joan Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All
> Does anyone know of any easy-to-use html strippers that could be used by a
> Windows user who isn't all that comfortable with the technical aspects of
> computer use?
> I mentioned mine on another list I'm on and the list owner wanted to know
> more about it. I said, "Sure! No problem!", forgetting he's a Windows
> user.
> Actually, it's David Colson's freeware that he makes available on his Net
> Tamer page; and, although it is indeed easy to use, it's a DOS program.
> I asked a colleague at work who takes programming classes if she knew of
> anything I could recommend and she asked, "Why would anyone want to do
> that?" Well, to strip html out of emails, of course.
> Can anyone help?
Hello:
I also use David Colson's freeware HTML stripper. I agree it is indeed
very easy to use. Although it is a DOS program, I certainly cannot
understand why that would constitute any kind of a problem for a Windows
user. Whenever I am doing something with a Windows machine, I will never
use a Windows program if I have an easy to use DOS program that will
perform the task I am trying to accomplish. The problem I find with most
people's Windows machines is that most of them are seriously lacking in
the most highly recommended and most useful DOS programs and utilities.
A lot of Windows users would even pay for a Windows program rather than to
use a freeware DOS program that has even much better features and is far
easier to use.
As for those who do not feel comfortable with using the command line,
they can easily designate an icon to represent their DOS programs and
they can invoke the program simply by pointing and clicking on it in
the same manner as they would call up a Windows program. DOS programs
usually are not a problem. Windows programs are quite often very hard to
understand. A very serious problem with Windows programs is that once
you install a Windows program, and you decide later that you don't like it,
you can't even safely delete it from your machine in many cases, unless
you are some kind of specialized advanced nerd and techno-wiz. The
Windows operating system was supposedly designed to make using computers
easier for everybody. It aspires for much, but accomplishes much less than
what anybody could do just by sticking to the good old ways of doing
things. I could go on and on about how so many of our new-fangled
technological "advancements" aren't really getting us anywhere, but such
a discussion would fall into the general realm of "philosophy", and that
would be way off-topic. We should all take great care to avoid becoming
philosphers if we don't want to get flamed.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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