Hi Pete,
The ascII artwork looks correct in all the editors
I've used, however, somewhere I did notice that my truck
didn't line up correctly. I think it may have been when
using Juno proprietary software. As someone has already
described, it is related to the system used by the software
reading the file. Unix specific editors don't usually read
DOS files well and DOS specific editors don't read Unix
files well. On the other hand, MS edit.com seems to read
both file types. If you load a Unix file into MS edit.com
and then "save" the file, it converts the unix file to DOS
format so that a DOS specific file will then read it.
If the file reader inserts its own visible or invisible
characters into the file at the beginning of lines it
shifts the ASCII artwork lines and usually makes the artwork
into gibberish. Of course if the reader doesn't read control
characters at all then the whole file is distorted.
When I write email I just try to limit my lines manually
to about 60 characters and then I've found that most readers
are able to make sense of them. Not much I can do about the
ASCII pictures.
Eric
>
>On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 03:42:42 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
><snip>
>> Some email
>> readers use variable-width fonts, which confuses things. Eric S. Emerson's
>> truck or van, among other things, wouldn't line up right.
>
> I notice that while replying to e-mails, no-one's ASCII artwork is
>displayed properly... How were those pix drawn?
> Also, Arachne seems to use that circle to indicate blank spaces at the
>beginning of lines of text >:-| If we manually insert those, will the
>drawing or diagram display as expected? What's the key combo?
>
>
> - Pete Randolph -
> - Morristown Corners, Vermont -
>
>
>
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