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From: chai@ta7.cs.uiuc.edu (Ian Chai)
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Subject: Answer: Why ASCII art look screwed up when dl'd?
Date: 26 Oct 1994 19:14:22 -0500
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Robert Kennedy <kennedy@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?