Ascii art problem...Help!

Hi all!

I have a signature file ascii graphic that a friend made for me (seen
below) that reads fine when I use Netscape, but when it's viewed on
Outlook Express (the Microsoft Internet Explorer email porogram), it's
just a jumbled mess. The signature file is below. If it reads properly
you should see "Eagle One" written below. Is there a way to make sure
that this signature file can be seen on all the programs others may have
who I email to?

Please respond directly to me as well as to the group if you wish. I may
not get to read the answer if it's only posted to the group.

Thank you in advance for your help.
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               E. James Small

  Eag...@mts.net  (or)  eag...@mb.sympatico.ca

>Message-id: <366...@mts.net>

>I have a signature file ascii graphic that a friend made for me (seen
>below) that reads fine when I use Netscape, but when it's viewed on
>Outlook Express (the Microsoft Internet Explorer email porogram), it's
>just a jumbled mess


Read the ASCII art FAQ
(copy at:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/faq.htm)

Also read the following Font Lesson:
http://www.chris.com/fontlesson.html

-joan
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.----- On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 15:44:59 -0600, Jim Small posted:
|Hi all!
|
|I have a signature file ascii graphic that a friend made for me (seen
|below) that reads fine when I use Netscape, but when it's viewed on
|Outlook Express (the Microsoft Internet Explorer email porogram), it's
|just a jumbled mess. The signature file is below. If it reads properly
|you should see "Eagle One" written below. Is there a way to make sure
|that this signature file can be seen on all the programs others may have
|who I email to?
|
|Please respond directly to me as well as to the group if you wish. I may
|not get to read the answer if it's only posted to the group.
|
|Thank you in advance for your help.
|-- 
|
|
|  It's not the time it takes to take the takes, 
|    it's the time it takes between the takes 
|         that take the time to take!
|
|  __|                            _ \ 
| |                 |           /   |
|  __|   _` |  _ |  |  _ \      |   |   _ \   _ \
| |     (   | (  |  |  __/      |   |  |   |  __/
| ___| \__,_|\__ | _|\___|      ____/ _|  _|\___|
|             |__/
|
|               E. James Small
|
|  Eag...@mts.net  (or)  eag...@mb.sympatico.ca
|
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Your Outlook Express is probably set to Arial or some other Proportional
font... switch it to a Fixed Width one such as FixedSys, Lucida Console or
Courier.
(It's difficult to get it into FixedSys without my patch which I hope Colin
Randall will post since I don`t have it handy)

Hope this helps,
-Martin
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In article <367...@news.vossnet.net>, Martin Atkins
<zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> writes
>.----- On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 15:44:59 -0600, Jim Small posted:
>|Hi all!
>|
>|I have a signature file ascii graphic that a friend made for me (seen
>|below) that reads fine when I use Netscape, but when it's viewed on
>|Outlook Express (the Microsoft Internet Explorer email porogram), it's
>|just a jumbled mess. The signature file is below. If it reads properly
>|you should see "Eagle One" written below. Is there a way to make sure
>|that this signature file can be seen on all the programs others may have
>|who I email to?
>|
>|  __|                            _ \ 
>| |                 |           /   |
>|  __|   _` |  _ |  |  _ \      |   |   _ \   _ \
>| |     (   | (  |  |  __/      |   |  |   |  __/
>| ___| \__,_|\__ | _|\___|      ____/ _|  _|\___|
>|             |__/
>'----------------------------------
>
>Your Outlook Express is probably set to Arial or some other Proportional
>font... switch it to a Fixed Width one such as FixedSys, Lucida Console or
>Courier.
>(It's difficult to get it into FixedSys without my patch which I hope Colin
>Randall will post since I don`t have it handy)
>
>Hope this helps,
>-Martin
[][ hi ...

yeah you're right ... altho' that'll just fix things on his own machine
... wont affect his viewing audience's machines

if Jim's mailers use Ms.Outlook with all default settings they'll
just see mush unless the pic/sig has been padded out with extra spaces
... which will prob'ly make it unreadable in a fixed-width font

i don't know if Ms.Outlook can send or interpret embedded macros which
change the reader's settings ... tho' i do know that user-agent-specific
viruses can be transmitted that way.

if Jim still wants the registry-patch?
i can send ... no problem ... just request

[][ see yuz
[][ colin
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