Question to Spunk 1111

In article <337...@bc.sympatico.ca>, Anne Buonassisi
<Abu...@bc.sympatico.ca> writes:
>I have a real "newbie" question- do you have any idea why, when I copy
>and save some ascii (I ALWAYS leave the initials on, OF COURSE!!) the
>ascii looks fine where I save it but then when I try to send it to
>someone in an email the top line (usually the top) leaves the picture
>and ends up way on the left hand side of the screen by itself????

I'm guessing that it may be how you save the picture.  With ASCII art, 
spaces are important.  Too many extra spaces at the end of a line can
cause a picture to wrap.  In addition, spaces after a line can cause some
reader programs to add an "=20D" or something like it to each line.
If the top line of your copied picture is on the left all by itself, you
might
have forgotten to save all those blank spaces before the first character
of the first line...  possible?
-joan
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Spunk1111 wrote:
> 
> In article <337...@bc.sympatico.ca>, Anne Buonassisi
> <Abu...@bc.sympatico.ca> writes:
> >I have a real "newbie" question- do you have any idea why, when I copy
> >and save some ascii (I ALWAYS leave the initials on, OF COURSE!!) the
> >ascii looks fine where I save it but then when I try to send it to
> >someone in an email the top line (usually the top) leaves the picture
> >and ends up way on the left hand side of the screen by itself????
> 
> I'm guessing that it may be how you save the picture.  With ASCII art,
> spaces are important.  Too many extra spaces at the end of a line can
> cause a picture to wrap.  In addition, spaces after a line can cause some
> reader programs to add an "=20D" or something like it to each line.
> If the top line of your copied picture is on the left all by itself, you
> might
> have forgotten to save all those blank spaces before the first character
> of the first line...  possible?
> -joan

I have a mean editor that sometimes removes empty spaces at the
beginning of a line - without asking me for permission.... :(

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Anne Buonassisi (Abu...@bc.sympatico.ca) wrote --

> [...] ascii looks fine where I save it but then when I try to send it to
> someone in an email the top line (usually the top) leaves the picture
> and ends up way on the left hand side of the screen by itself????

It's all in the software and how you use it. What program do you use to
save the material? What steps do you take to save it? How do you get the
material into an e-mail message? What mailer are you using? We can only
make wild guesses if we don't know the answers to these questions.

Dan Strychalski              dski at cameonet cameo com tw (not twx as above)
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There is a superb resource on almost every computer ever made. Apple tried to
remove it, but had to put it back; Windows almost completely ignored it, but
later had to use it; IBM moved it out of reach, but people wrote software to
return it to its proper place. For 25 points, name that resource.

On 12 May 1997 03:16:04 GMT, dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.twx (Dan
Strychalski) intoned:

(Big snip & way off-topic)
>Dan Strychalski              dski at cameonet cameo com tw (not twx as above)
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>There is a superb resource on almost every computer ever made. Apple tried to
>remove it, but had to put it back; Windows almost completely ignored it, but
>later had to use it; IBM moved it out of reach, but people wrote software to
>return it to its proper place. For 25 points, name that resource.

Uhmm.. the brain of the person using the computer?

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