On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:

>What the heck is a "&nbsp" ?

It is a NonBreaking SPace. Something inside an HTML page that is inserted
to allow for more spaces in a row. Regular browsers will take out extra
spaces. This is a trick to add another space.

I always wonder why people send webpages to mailing lists...
Paul

>On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
>> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
>> <html>
>> Dear&nbsp; forum; I'm interested in speaking with any experienced programmers
>> who are familiar with "Porting" a Windows-Based program to a Linux-based
>> one, whether or not "Wine" would have to be used or not. My office uses
>> a 16 bit program which it currently the only POS standing between a&nbsp;
>> totally Linux office, and a half and half environment. This program is
>> designed to access an on-line binary database, and then downloads these
>> binary files to be merged with one large data file.&nbsp; I'd really like
>> to find a way to switch it over to Linux, without using some sort of Windows
>> emulator, so if anyone's interested&nbsp; in&nbsp; having a new project,
>> get back to me at this forum, or email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]</html>
>
>

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