How to frame a whole paragraph in LaTeX?

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From: Robert Noel STURROCK
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 08:50

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Hello,

(hope this isn't a FAQ, but I couldn't see it there)

I'm aware that you can frame pieces of text using \fbox or \frambox, but
how can you place a frame around a whole paragraph?  What I want is something
like:


		----------------------------------------
		|	...			 ...   |
		|       ...lots of verbatim text!...   |
		.	...			 ...   .
		.				       .
		----------------------------------------

If I use \fbox{line one\\line two\\line three\\line four...}, then the
output appears all on one line.

Do I need to resort to \picture to achieve the desired effect?  I don't
care if the text if inside a \figure or not...


Thanks for any assistance


Rob

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