Re: Sending ASCII - question

"bam" <ba...@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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