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Original Usenet message from rec.arts.ascii, 27 Oct 1994.
Answer: Why ASCII art look screwed up when dl'd?

Answer: Why ASCII art look screwed up when dl'd?

Robert Kennedy <ken...@cam.org> writes:
>When I download, for instance, ascii art files from the ftp.mcs.com
>archive and save them as MS Word documents and then try to look at them,
>they come out totally screwed up.

Are you using a monospaced font to view them?

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