Answer: Why does ASCII art look screwed up when I dl?
From Jon Robertson Plummer <jpl...@umich.edu>
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· 23 Oct 1994 21:05 · View full thread
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Robert Kennedy (ken...@cam.org) had this to say:
= 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.
= Also, copying them from the newsgroup and pasting them into another
= document--or even opening them in the clipboard produces the same result.
Try changing the font to a monospaced font such as Courier, Courier New,
Video Terminal Screen, Terminal, or FixedSys. Since ASCII art is done
in/for environments that assume monospaced fonts and
MSWord/Write/Clipboard/etc. default to proportionally spaced fonts.
Good luck.
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