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RE: [ECS] # of characters in a text string Kevin Keast Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:46:55 -0500

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Don,

you should be able to stip off html with EDM alone (the text editor that
comes with ECS).  I use a small EDM routine to do this to the weather html
page I download.

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: stephens@west.net [mailto:stephens@west.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 1999 7:01 PM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: Re: [ECS] # of characters in a text string
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>
> This really works well! It's small, and pretty fast. My problem
> is with the
> results. I'm trying to write a Pascal program to strip the
> information from
> the file created by WPDL. I've put in the switch so the program
> will delete
> all the HTML stuff, and if I look at that file with an editor, or
> something
> like LIST everything looks good, but if I use the DOS command
> TYPE the text
> Is all over the place. Is there a Carrage Return problem that I'm
> not aware
> of, or is it simply me?
> Thanks;
> Don
>
> On 1999-03-01 ecs-list@netbloc.com said:
>    >Thanks Mark, worked great!
>    >Tom
>    >Please respond to ecs-list@netbloc.com
>    >cc:    (bcc: Thomas Hutchins-TA/PGI)
>    >Tom, the "{"'s are not required.
>    >Make a batch file (.BAT) with the WPDL command
>    >and execute it instead.
>    >> Tom Hutchins wrote:
>    >> All,
>    >> I'm trying to set up WPDL to download weather forecasts. Problem
>    >>is  when I do the following:
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