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From: Edward Farrow <wildwing@darkside.demon.co.uk>
Subject: ASC files?   [anime]
Date: 1997/06/10
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In a message of 09 Jun 97 The Right Rev. Felix Roy Mariposa,  wrote to All:

 TRR> An appeal on behalf of Mac Users: Please don't use the .ASC format,
 TRR> whatever it is. When SimpleText opens an .ASC file, all sorts of
 TRR> garbage characters show up in it (like  and ). Normal text files are
 TRR> fine for everyone.

   If it has them and  etc. Then it is probably ANSI. You need an ANSI
(pronounced Ann-see) viewer/editor to see them. If you try viewing an ANSI file
using an ASCII text editor/viewer it will show up as High-End ascii among other
gibberish.

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