Converting html to text ?!?

Friday, 5 March 2010

Hi;

I have been using Notecase for a couple of years.  I would like to keep
it but it seems it is no longer being maintained as open source.

∴ I would like to use Lyx as my large note taker or draft writer
application.  The problem is Notecase uses an *.ncd suffix which is
unrecognized by Lyx.  When I examine the files I want to import from
Notecase to Lyx they are designated in the header as:

        <!DOCTYPE NoteCase-File>
        <!--LastNote:41-->
        <HTML>
        <HEAD>
        <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"
        http-equiv="Content-Type">
        <meta name="generator" content="NoteCase 1.6.1">
        <TITLE></TITLE>
        ... etc.

The markup is almost certainly html.

How can I convert these files into *.txt?  I have tried several
variations of:

        ]$ html2text -o ~/UMLC.txt file:///home/bill/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.
        *Cannot open input file "file:///home/bill/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.*".

Any suggestions greatly appreciated on how to import these (I have
several) *.ncd files into Lyx.

-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28
Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1