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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:12:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: laszlo vagner <vagner@mutsgo.kf7nn.com>
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, laszlo vagner wrote:

> if i run top and send it to a file like this
> top > file.txt  i can look at it perfectly 
> in a web browser but if i run it as a cgi
> script the output looks all bunched together
> like it is missing carriage returns.

What file type is your CGI script returning?  If it's text/HTML then it's
getting reformatted.  Try returning type text/plain.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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