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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 5 Aug 1997.
Re: HTML and lynx
In article <5s7a5f$9i2$1...@news1.bu.edu>, 
Sepideh Baghaii <sep...@bu.edu> writes:
>I was wondering if there is a way of creating ascii pictures in files that
>could be accessed through and html file the way gifs are accessed.  For
>example, if you have <img src = bubba.gif> Could you do something like,
><img src = bubba.gif alt = beckisue>?  I want to make my web page more lynx
>friendly.  I figured an ascii artist might know.

This has been discussed before and I don't believe it is possible:
the text in ALT strings apeears to recognise neither a surrounding PRE
or TT directive, nor an embedded \r\n for newline.

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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: HTML and lynx
Date: 1997/08/05
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