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From: rose <rose@iastate.edu>
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/07/09
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Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:
> 
> The problem is that newline characters will be deleted from
> this text, so it becomes "___ _7 |> | _  | \ \...."
> which doesn't look much like a dog, does it????
> <pre>...</pre> does not stop this!
> I am not aware of any "\n" type sequence for inserting a new-line.
> 
> Saying that, is there a protocol for inserting an ascii
> character-number?  &013 decimal (&015 oct, &0x0D hex)
> to put an LF in a string, and would that work OK?
> 
Try something like:

<PRE>   __&#013 _7 |>&#013| _  |&#013   \ \______,&#013   /    __
;&#013   \  _/  \ )&#013   | /     |l&#013</PRE>

where that mess is all on one line.  I hope this works.

-John

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