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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 26 Feb 2004.
Re: file_slash_problem

Re: file_slash_problem

Karl Pech wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> Sometimes then I look at some ascii-pictures which are posted here
> I see odd "file://"-texts in these. What can I do to stop this
> (except using another newsreader ;)  ) ?
>
> Thanks!
>
I only see stuff like that (usually x@y being turned into an email address)
when using the default variable-width font. Have you tried View/Text
Size/Fixed? You may be using a fixed-width font as the default font anyway
(which is usually variable-width), but perhaps OE only stops finding
hyperlinks if you specify a fixed-width font.

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Subject: Re: file_slash_problem
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