[plug] stipping characters

[Mike Holland]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jon  Miller wrote:

> Not sure this is it.  I have a file with over 100 lines of text. What
> I want to do is run the file through a program that will remove
> characters that are found in other apps (formatting, etc) thereby
> creating a simple text file.

I would have answered "strings" as the most general answer. Otherwise,
you'll need to be more specific. What is the input format?
e.g. if its html "lynx -dump".



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