ml>> a "hijacked" REXX script that seems to have originated with
 ml>> RexxMail... it calls itself HTML2TXT and says that it is a filter to
 ml>> convert (ISO 8859-1) HTML to PC-850 text.

 MK> Really?

yup!

 MK> I never used REXX myself but did hear good things
 MK> about it way back when dinosaurs were using their modems on
 MK> dialup with OS/2, usually with Maximus.  I never heard
 MK> anything about REXX and html though.

actually, i've not really gotten into everything that REXX can do... i know
that i could rewrite the main control .BAT files for the bbs in REXX but i
don't see any advantages in doing so... shoot, OS/2 is so comparable on
both sides of the fence, that i took my .BATs and copied them to .CMDs and
then simply altered the names of the programs to call the proper native
counterpart... a few waits here and there and some sleeps here and there
and everything was running on both side of the fence with no problems ;)

 ml>> there're a few minor problems that i'm aware of with it... one being
 ml>> the inability to fully strip out some javascript stuff... it leaves

 MK> Right.  Javascript.  :::shaking my head knowingly:::

 ml>>   "); //-->

 ml>> behind when filtering the following...

 ml>>