Photo shows PMStripper 1.17 running on Warp 4.0 of @Macarlo, Inc.

PMStripper Updated to V. 1.17

Developer Don Hawkinson just updates to version 1.17 PMStripper, HTML Code Stripper for OS/2. The file was uploaded on Hobbes: pms_117.zip, 363k and this shareware costs $9.95 US / 18 DM / 6 GBP and can be downloaded and registered in BMT Micro, Inc. Available at:
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/pms_117.zip
and http://www.bmtmicro.com

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.

Install PMStripper as the HTML source viewer in WebX instead of the OS/2 system editor E, and you can use the Ctrl+V keystroke combination to load the web page source directectly into PMStripper. This will make it easier to cut
and paste information or URLs from web pages.

PMStripper may also be installed as the Documnet Source viewer in the OS/2 version of Netscape. The ALT-V , S keystroke combination will then load the web page into PMStripper.

Registered users of PMStripper will have access to two additional executable files that were compiled with the 486 and 586 compiler options. These versions will offer some performance improvement for users with 468 , Pentium, or equivalent CPUs.

New in PMStripper 1.17

Fixed a bug that could cause PMStripper it to abort. This could happen if the user had too much text marked when the user pressed ALT+S or selected "Save As" from the menu. With the fix, if there are more than 1024 characters the program does not attempt to use the marked text as a filename. If
there are less then 1024 and more than 254 marked characters, the text is truncated and then used as the file name.

Added a 'Translate quotes' to the strip options. This option translates the "smart quotes" used on some web pages into the standard ascii values (0x93 and 0x94 are changed to 0x22). The "smart apostrophes" are translated to standard ascii (0x91 and 0x92 are changed to 0x22). The two "special
hyphen" characters are translated to standard ascii (0x96 and 0x97 are changed to 0x2d). The 0x85 character is translated into 3 periods (0x2e) to approximate an elipsis character. In addition the 0xA0 and the 0x99 characters are translated to a space. The translation is done before any
html character enties are translated, so this option should not effect languages that use those characters as part of their normal text.

Added an 'Only http type' option to the URL options. This option limits the URLs to those links containing a http reference. The "normal" URL detection looks for htlm code containing href and will find gopher, ftp, mailto, and
relative links to other web pages as well as complete URLs.


CONTACT AUTHOR:

Don Hawkinson
dwhawk@southwind.net


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