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Thanks for the advice, Tilman.

Bryan


"Tilman Ahr" <rioteer@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> "bam" <bam@digital.net> 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 <pre>-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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