Question displayin ASCII

[MFKR]

I'm curious on how to display some text in ASCII or the way it is displayed in a txt file. I've been messing around with lots of stuff and looking around but can't find anything simple but effective. please help?

[laserlight]

Um, just display it enclosed in <pre> and </pre> tags?

[MFKR]

thanks that works great never knew about <pre> and </pre>
One more question although it doesn't relate to the last one...are there any php commands or whatever that will have it work if anything is in a mysql slot...example below

if (article_txt == NULL)
	{
	}
else if (article_txt == )
	{
echo "<br><pre>";
include_once''.$row["article_txt"].'';
echo "</pre><br>";
}

I want it so if the row in the table is NULL it will not display anything but if it has anything ti will display...what do I put instead of null?