-=> Quoting Dan Ceppa to Bruce Clark <=-

 BC> If the border wasn't there, the leading spaces on Katakana
"A" (ah) 
 BC> would all all collapse to the left margin, bringing anything to the 
 BC> right of them along with them. 
 BC> Worse then a line wrap in the wrong place, which can be figured out 
 BC> and undone. 

 DC> True, but ASCII art is a relative rarity.  

_NOW_!!

Remember how much there was back in the 80s? 

Especially in the bulletin section of a BBS, where the the "perforation 
strip" went down both sides of the screen for the "tractor printer?" 

The Fido BBS seemed to have an over-abundance of "Fido-dog" related 
ascii art. 


 
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