Re: Text Art Plus (plus thoughts about ascii searching)

Maybe try it in quotes?  Usually that makes it search for the string "as
is", no?
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Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> 
> Jorn Barger wrote:
> >
> > >Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> > [...]
> > >> I tried to search in Alta Vista for a line from good old
> > >> "Meriday's" feet...  Here's the line:
> > >> "MMMM MM::::m:m:MM"
> >
> > Altavista ignores all punctuation, so this would work the same as
> > "MMMM.MM.m.m.MM" or "MMMM MM m m MM".
> >
> > Unfortunately, most all ascii art is almost pure punctuation, so AV is
> > little or no use.  (It may be that other search engines would handle
> > this better-- anyone know?)
> 
> Oh :(
> 
> Well, I haven't actually used this method, I just thought about the
> possibility when I wrote that post about the difference between ascii
> art and gif images as "seen" by the computer... :-/
> 
> --
> :)
> Veronica Karlsson
> ( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )

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