ascII text? What gives? How to?

[Sparky Kronkite]

Some people have asked the Shebabe to attach her resume in "ascII text" - we can't seem to find it anywhere on this computer. And therefore not how to attach it.

What is it? And how do you attach such a file?

 

[Weird Harold]

Some people have asked the Shebabe to attach her resume in "ascII text" - we can't seem to find it anywhere on this computer. And therefore not how to attach it.

What is it? And how do you attach such a file?

ASCII text is the most basic of text files -- no formatting information, no font selection, just the characters and ASCII controll characters (carriage return, line feed, tab, etc.)

To create an ASCII file, select SAVE AS on your word processor menu, and choose "plain text", "MSDOS text", or "ASCII text" (whichever your word processor calls ASCII text files.)

When it tells you that "the file contains some formatting which may be lost" tell it "yes, save it in text format."

Almost every word processing program can save as or export files in text format. If yours doesn't, or you can't find the right spot on the menu, PM or e-mail me and I'll do what I can to help.

As far as attaching a text file to an e-mail, you attach it the same way you would any other file. You just have to remember that the file will (usually) have an extension of .TXT Just remember the file name you save the file under and which folder you put it in, so you can attach it to the e-mail.

 

[MunchinMark]

Just got a bit to add to what WH said.

This is the format of text in Notepad/Wordpad on Windows.

More importantly it is a lot harder to conceal viruses in than the comparitively huge formats used by Word for example. Many companies have realised this and insist on using ASCII for that reason.

The conveniance of being able to use pretty much any text editor is handy too.

 

[Spinaroonie]

ASCII can also be art. People use such things as ./;:'"[]{}”’””}!@#$%^&*()_+=`~©ƒ…å´¨©ƒ¬å´

To draw pretty pictures! Somebody here pointed to a telnet server that would play Star Wars in ASCII. (Unfortunately, it'd stop after a while)

 

[Bob Peale]

Sparkmeister

Here's a good link...

ASCII Keyword Resume Example

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Thnaks guys.

Most informative. A hidden gem. From me anyway.

 

[Bob Peale]

Anytime!