email extraction program
Hi all: Does anyone have a suggestion for a program that turns email messages (I use Netscape 7) into text files? I tried mail2txt but it included all the hidden html codes, which means I'll still have to strip each one individually. I'm trying to find the most painless way to get 4 months of listserv messages into text files so I can import them into QSR N6 for analysis! I was led to believe that this latest version of NUD*IST had a utility to do this itself ("swift data import"). But no! All documents must be text files, which was the case when I used it last a few versions back. Grrrr. Rhiannon Rhiannon Bury Assistant Professor Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON. Canada N2L 3C5
just run html2txt on it or run it through bbedit strip html on the command line to strip it out. On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Rhiannon Bury wrote:
Hi all:
Does anyone have a suggestion for a program that turns email messages (I use Netscape 7) into text files? I tried mail2txt but it included all the hidden html codes, which means I'll still have to strip each one individually. I'm trying to find the most painless way to get 4 months of listserv messages into text files so I can import them into QSR N6 for analysis! I was led to believe that this latest version of NUD*IST had a utility to do this itself ("swift data import"). But no! All documents must be text files, which was the case when I used it last a few versions back. Grrrr.
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Bury Assistant Professor Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON. Canada N2L 3C5
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Hi all, same problem here, I'm drowning.... do you konw of any program that can convert e-mail messages to text files from outlook express...? Best, Tamar ----- Original Message ----- From: "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns@vt.edu> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 1:08 AM Subject: Re: [Air-l] email extraction program
just run html2txt on it or run it through bbedit strip html on the command line to strip it out. On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Rhiannon Bury wrote:
Hi all:
Does anyone have a suggestion for a program that turns email messages (I use Netscape 7) into text files? I tried mail2txt but it included all the hidden html codes, which means I'll still have to strip each one individually. I'm trying to find the most painless way to get 4 months of listserv messages into text files so I can import them into QSR N6 for analysis! I was led to believe that this latest version of NUD*IST had a utility to do this itself ("swift data import"). But no! All documents must be text files, which was the case when I used it last a few versions back. Grrrr.
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Bury Assistant Professor Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON. Canada N2L 3C5
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there are several outlook express .dbx file extraction utilities on freshmeat.net. you should be able to put together a small shell script that links that together with other utilities to strip html will get you what you need. On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 02:14 AM, tmr_s wrote:
Hi all,
same problem here, I'm drowning.... do you konw of any program that can convert e-mail messages to text files from outlook express...?
Best, Tamar
----- Original Message ----- From: "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns@vt.edu> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 1:08 AM Subject: Re: [Air-l] email extraction program
just run html2txt on it or run it through bbedit strip html on the command line to strip it out. On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Rhiannon Bury wrote:
Hi all:
Does anyone have a suggestion for a program that turns email messages (I use Netscape 7) into text files? I tried mail2txt but it included all the hidden html codes, which means I'll still have to strip each one individually. I'm trying to find the most painless way to get 4 months of listserv messages into text files so I can import them into QSR N6 for analysis! I was led to believe that this latest version of NUD*IST had a utility to do this itself ("swift data import"). But no! All documents must be text files, which was the case when I used it last a few versions back. Grrrr.
Rhiannon
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I found html2txt but it seems to be designed for websites, not email: it asks for a URL. Not sure how to apply to email messages. Also, isn't bbedit a Mac editor? Is there an equivalent for PC? Thanks. Rhiannon jeremy hunsinger wrote:
just run html2txt on it or run it through bbedit strip html on the command line to strip it out. On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Rhiannon Bury wrote:
Hi all:
Does anyone have a suggestion for a program that turns email messages (I use Netscape 7) into text files? I tried mail2txt but it included all the hidden html codes, which means I'll still have to strip each one individually. I'm trying to find the most painless way to get 4 months of listserv messages into text files so I can import them into QSR N6 for analysis! I was led to believe that this latest version of NUD*IST had a utility to do this itself ("swift data import"). But no! All documents must be text files, which was the case when I used it last a few versions back. Grrrr.
Rhiannon
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bbedit is for macs yes. there are pc equivalents I don't do windows, sorry. there is probably software available that can strip html tags, like html2txt, for windows, but all textfiles can be webpages, so you may just want to run html2txt a few through to see what it does. The problem is that you probably can't script it to function without the windows interface interfering, but perhaps you can, i don't know. I don't think that operating system is my ideal for this type of work. I'm sorry i can't help you further. On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 12:21 PM, Rhiannon Bury wrote:
I found html2txt but it seems to be designed for websites, not email: it asks for a URL. Not sure how to apply to email messages. Also, isn't bbedit a Mac editor? Is there an equivalent for PC?
Thanks.
Rhiannon
jeremy hunsinger wrote:
just run html2txt on it or run it through bbedit strip html on the command line to strip it out. On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Rhiannon Bury wrote:
Hi all:
Does anyone have a suggestion for a program that turns email messages (I use Netscape 7) into text files? I tried mail2txt but it included all the hidden html codes, which means I'll still have to strip each one individually. I'm trying to find the most painless way to get 4 months of listserv messages into text files so I can import them into QSR N6 for analysis! I was led to believe that this latest version of NUD*IST had a utility to do this itself ("swift data import"). But no! All documents must be text files, which was the case when I used it last a few versions back. Grrrr.
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Bury Assistant Professor Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON. Canada N2L 3C5
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