> In a text area on a web page I type three line, pressing the Enter key
> at the end of each line
>
> Line1
> Line2
> Line3
>
> I then save this using adodb to a firebird text blob field.
> If I use a database utility to view the data in the database, it
> appears as I have typed it, but whne I retreive the data, and display
> it again in a text area I get

Retrieve the data into what?

> Line1<br />
> Line2<br />
> Line3
>
> Any ideas why?

This looks HTML-ish.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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