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  From: David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:55:10 +0930 (CST)

Re: MS redefines ASCII

Hi,

> I have never had this problem at all.
> I use Notepad, write and word quite allot and have never had any problems with
> using them under emacs, netscape, dos edit/qbasic at all.

Word is the only program which does this, and can be turned off. As I said
before, you can also be careful in saving, and not get this problem.

> One strange thing is that composer instead of using <br> is uses the funny &
> followed by a couple of other letters.

Netscape Composer in my opinion is only a starting point for HTML. It is
great to quickly run up a page, but always needs editing in a text editor
afterwards.

cya

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