How to echo the "/n", "/r", etc... to the HTML display?

Hi! I have been working on this part for a few days now! It had become appareant that HTML is not able to do this, so I'm trying to get it to work in PHP but no luck! The string I see like this is when I run the UNIX command "od -av <filename> |more". --clip here-- del cr lf cr lf cr lf cr 0000020 lf P A G E sp 1 sp sp sp D A T E sp sp 0000040 1 - 2 5 - 2 0 0 2 sp sp T I M E sp 0000060 1 0 : 3 8 : 1 4 sp sp P @ F E P sp 0000100 sp V 0 0 1 sp sp T C A 1 cr --clip end-- So, you see, if I use the PHP function, nl2br(), that took care of the "cr" and the "lf". But it doesn't take care of the "sp" so how do I fix that? This "sp" when work correctly will be able to justify the text on each line. Anyone know? thanks, Scott