OFF: </xmp>

[Goran Janicijevic]

DASLUD at AOL.COM wrote in <0.3169e7ca.25430319 at aol.com>:

>could someone a bit more technically-endowed than moi explain to this one
>what is being this </xmp>?

It's a (end of) HTML tag for eXaMPle.

This is when you read examples given on some web page, and they are
usually in some fixed pitch font, like Courier, unlike the normal
text, that is in some variable font, like Times or Helvetica.
--
Goran