Define a plugin (-n)
Syntax: -n"mime-type,extension,filter-command"
Define a plugin for processing non-HTML file types. A plugin is
basically any filter program that accepts a given file type on its input
and generates a flat text version on its output. To define a plugin you
specify the document's ``mime'' type, its extension type and the name of
the filter program. Any document fetched having the specified extension
or mime type will be processed through the filter command instead of the
default HTML to text converter inside gw.
e.g.: ``gw -n"application/pdf,pdf,pdftotx"''
defines a PDF plugin that will pass documents having extension
``.pdf'' or mime type ``application/pdf'' through
the filter program ``pdftotx''.
The filter program must be in the execution path or have its full path specified.
This may be used multiple times and is a good candidate for placing into
an option file (-m section 0.3.6) because of its length. Using
this option also implies ``-fextension'' and ``-Tmime-type''
so you don't have to specify them.
If your non-HTML files don't always have the specified extension
and can only be identified by the mime type you might need to use
the -z option to increase the maximum download file size
(See section 0.3.10).
Things like PDF documents are often much larger than the text
contained in them.
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