On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 02:59:16PM -0000, David Biesack wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> lynx -dump url is supposed to strip out the HTML markup and format the text,
> but it is not working; it is just echoing the output. 
> 
> The input is simple HTML:
> 
> $ echo >| curl.out <<EOF
> <html>
> <body><p>Some text</p></body>
> </html>
> EOF
> 
> but when I do
> 
>     $ lynx -d curl.out
> 
> lynx just echos the HTML markup.

man lynx:

       -force_html
              forces the first document to be interpreted as HTML.

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  lynx -dump fails if filename is not *.html

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