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Last updated on 17th February 1999. (Known issues updated)

Web2Text

Web2Text screenshot; 8,132 bytes.

Web2Text is a HTML to ASCII text converter. Unlike most others, however, this one not only has an easy to use graphical interface but it actually produces a nicely laid out text version, and keeps URLs visible. A minimum of post-conversion editing required!

Instructions in Swedish are available: Svenska Instruktionera (thanks to Conny Magnusson).

Editor's Pick logo; 5,224 bytes.No Nags gave Web2Text a top rating (6 ducks!) and Web2Text is now in use at No Nags as part of their search engine. No Nags is an excellent site listing 32-bit freeware programs (not 16-bit ones any more, sadly) and shareware programs that don't bug you (hence the name). Even more useful than winfiles.com because No Nags actually give all programs ratings. Web2Text has also been featured in the 34th issue (24/3/97) of Lockergnome's Free Windows 95/NT E-zine. A little more recently, Web2Text became an Editor's Pick at SoftSeek.

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What's New in Version 1.5?

Distribution

Web2Text is freeware. You may not charge money for it, with one exception: if you are putting out a CD full of shareware/freeware/etc. and want to include Web2Text you may do so but on the condition that you send me a copy of the CD and magazine. Email me to get my postal address and formal permission.

Magazines that have put my software on CD and have sent me the magazine as requested: PC Collector (France), PC Praxis (Germany) and HOT Shareware (Spain) - thanks all. However not all magazines are so honest - InTech (Malaysia), a newspaper supplement, have stolen my software and not sent me a copy of the CD/magazine as requested. Thieves!

Known Issues

  • The initial copy of v1.6 placed here had a small bug in the installation routine; if you tried to install to a folder that would have needed the creation of more than one new folder (e.g. C:\ONE\TWO where ONE didn't already exist), the installation failed. This is now fixed. If you've had this problem, you do not have to download the program again - just manually create the folder you wish to install to. Also, make sure you supply a full folder name, including the drive, e.g. (C:\FOLDER instead of just FOLDER), or you'll only install the program to a folder in the same place as the SETUP.EXE file!
  • The settings for italic and bold character were only read when the program was first started; so if you changed them the program didn't notice unless you exited and re-ran it. Fixed in v1.6.
  • I have had identical reports from two users in Thailand that the 16-bit version when run in Windows for Workgroups v3.11 simply pops up the following error message: 
    Exception EReadError in module
WEBTEXT.EXE at 000A:2AA7
Unable to insert a line
    I have not been able to reproduce this problem, and suspect it may be due to something strange within the Thai version of Windows. All I can say now that I have stopped supporting this version is that an OS upgrade may be an idea!
  • No other issues besides the ones in the WEB2TEXT.TXT file (to be found in the ZIP).

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