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From: corey@zeus.odyssey.net (corey)
Subject: Re: Help on viewing *.asc files
Date: 1997/01/09
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references: <N.010697.201526.17@det-mi11-42.ix.netcom.com>
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In article <olson-ya023480000901970002510001@news>,
   olson@ici.net (Jeremy J. Olson) wrote:
>In article <N.010697.201526.17@det-mi11-42.ix.netcom.com>,
>charles3@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
>} Hello all,
>} 
>} I have following the posts on this group for about
>} a week. I am quite surprised on how well some of 
>} the ascii art is done. I do have a question that I
>} have not seen asked (or if it has, I must have 
>} missed it). It pertains on how to view the *.asc
>} files. If there is a faq on this subject, could
>} someone direct me to it or possibly e-mail it to
>} me? If there is a program that I would need to
>} use, could you also direct me to the place where
>} I may find it?
>
>I've seen a couple of webpages of this type (as they are normally *.html or
>*.htm), I think at the Largest ASCII Site or something like that it was
>called. My browser, MSIE, just shows them as plain text files, like it
>would a *.txt page (.asc must mean "ASCII" text, whatever the difference
>is).
>
>       Jeremy J. Olson <olson@ici.net>
> o o   http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/olson/olson.html
>  U
> \O/   11010110 11010011 11010110 10010100 10101011

I view them the same way I write a text file, with your dos editor..