Large Pre-formatted Files

Tim Evans (tkevans@fallst.es.dupont.com)
Fri, 14 Jan 1994 10:05:04 -0500 (EST)

We'd like to put our local installation's phone book, about 300KB
in size and more than 4,000 lines long, up on our internal server.
The file is currently formatted like this:

name<tab><tab><tab>number<tab>department<tab>building/room

Using the raw file fouls up the formatting, generating a single continuous
"paragraoh" of unformatted data. I tried surrounding the entire
document with <pre> and </pre> markup, but the file--or more likely
the pre-formatted part of the file--seems too large for Mosaic to
handle. (It's been 15 minutes since I asked Mosaic 2.1 to load the
file, on a Sun 4/110, and I'm still looking at the little watch.)
I've tried simply putting <p> at the end of each line/entry, and
this works, but "double-spaces" the output, something I'd rather
not have.

How can this sort of file be marked up in HTML to display it properly
in a reasonable amont of time?

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