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From: olson@ici.net (Jeremy J. Olson)
Subject: Re: Help on viewing *.asc files
Date: 1997/01/09
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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).

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