[GreenKeys] Heavy Metal

[John Foust]

At 09:27 PM 1/3/2002 -0700, gil smith wrote:
>I'm still looking for a way to get the CNN breaking news emails to
>automatically print on the tty (by the time the find bin-livin-too-long).
>I need to automatically get the text out of an email program to a text
>file, and also strip down some of the extra crap and format it into a short
>tty-friendly news message.  If this message file is then saved to the HM
>magic folder, the printing would be automatic!   It would be quite cool to
>have the tty just fire up and print news in semi-realtime.

You're thinking ten years behind the times.  :-)  There are
standards out there for the exchange of news and headlines
between web sites - some for clipping, some for handhelds, etc.
Avantgo or WAP interfaces would fit well on teletype.
Tools like 'wget' can fetch web pages directly, too, if
you want to try translating the HTML to text with other tools.

- John