help newbie fromatted ASCII text into cell

Hi,
how do I insert formatted ASCII text like this

[start]

host=a.b.c             # host name
port=123               # port
increment=1^2          # increment

into a VARCHAR2 cell. My problem is
a. end of lines (appending ||chr(13) seems to help) b. spaces in each should be retained

Thanks,
Andrew Received on Mon Sep 20 2004 - 23:45:32 CDT