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From: Robert Kennedy <kennedy@cam.org>
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Subject: Answer: Why ASCII art look screwed up when dl'd?
Date: 29 Oct 1994 13:48:25 -0500
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In article <38mrcu$6jl@gagme.wwa.com> Ian Chai, chai@ta7.cs.uiuc.edu
writes:
>
>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?
>

Thanks, Ian and others who responded. I was indeed using the wrong font.
<sheepish expression> the FAQ I read was vague on this point--I've since
read others.

--Robert, who was blind but now can see