X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,1a33b523b4a3dfeb X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-21 23:56:06 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p3ee293be.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail From: Tilman Ahr Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Sending ASCII - question Date: 22 Feb 2001 08:49:04 +0100 Organization: RiotCo, ltd. Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p3ee293be.dip.t-dialin.net (62.226.147.190) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 982828219 24555601 62.226.147.190 (16 [35725]) X-Attribution: T.A. User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4540 "bam" writes: > 1. Is there any way to assure that when one e-mails using a fixed width > font that the recipient will receive in the same manner? With *real* e-mail: No. If you want to send ASCII-art to Clueless Wan^WId^WLu^WUsers using OE or similar "Mailreaders" you might try to make it an HTML-mail and put the ASCII-art in 
-Tags.

But that would be fighting something bad with something worse...

What I would do, really is tell in the beginning of the Message to view
it in a fixed-width-font.
 
> 2. Some e-mail programs are set to a different number of characters
> before a line break. Is there any "safe" number to use going across so
> that each line, as sent, will most likely hold up when it is received
> and not create an extra line? (which could wreck everything)

Usually around 70 lines should be on the safe side.

Tilman
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