[GRLUG] Printing HTML emails from the command line

Godwin geektoyz at gmail.com
Sat Feb 16 18:19:46 EST 2008


There's always the "html2text" converter...  ;-)

html2ps      1.0b5-2                              HTML to PostScript converter
html2text    1.3.2a-3                             An advanced HTML
totext converter

G-



On Feb 15, 2008 2:32 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Michael Mol wrote:
> >  > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  >
> >  >>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >  >>>
> >  >>>
> >  >> You could hint to your grandma what a technical and time-consuming burden
> >  >> she is placing on her favorite grandson. This should be sufficient to
> >  >> motivate most grandparents to learn how to check email. ;)
> >  >>
> >  >
> >  > Not really an option, for a variety of reasons including medical
> >  > (she's simply too tired most of the time), technical(I don't want to
> >  > set up a Windows box with Outlook Express, which is the only client
> >  > she's ever managed to learn.), and organizational( The only online PC
> >  > currently is mine, and the floor is too often treacherous.).
> >  >
> >  > Besides...I code for fun.  And this is fun. :-)
> >  >
> >  >
> >  send it to festival and have it read to her?
>
> I'd have to deal with rewind/replay issues.  Also, family members
> frequently email pictures, hardcopies of which are a useful
> side-effect of the exercise.
>
> --
> :wq
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