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Message no. 1
From: Menard Steve <menars@***.UMONTREAL.CA>
Subject: Special Characters. Sorry!
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 22:35:38 -0400
On Wed, 5 Apr 1995, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Apr 1995, NIGHTFOX wrote:
>
> > >=09OK, like some people advised me, I'll be posting some of the stuff
> > >I invented, mainly a couple of spells, an Phys. Ad. power and some tech.
> >
> > >=09Purpose : Damaging Manipulation
> >
> > >=09This spell "encases" a specific melee weapon in a sheath
of element=
> al
> > >matter(energy). This increases the effectiveness of the weapon against j=
> ust=
> > >=20
> > >about any target. Furthermore most elemental effects count against most=
> =20
> > >elemental's weaknesses without further cost.
> >
> > The only real comment I have to make at this time is that I can not read
> > through posts comfortably. It detracts from a post when there are so man=
> y
> > special characters that it takes away from the effort to read and think a=
> bout
> > it. I do no know if other poeple are also having this problem.
> > But to make it easier to read you might want to consider pressing the
> > return key before you reach the end of the screen and over type.
> >
> > Try doing a typing job like this.
> > Where you only use half or a little more
> > of the page. Yes it may start to look
> > like your writing poetry, but it
> > may turn out to be much more legible.
> >
> >
> > Nightfox
> >
>
I'm soory about those special chars. When I wrote the text I was
on a Unix machine and everything seemed fine. I'll stop using tabs
and check my 80-line limit. I'll reformat my texts and repost them
soon.

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