TEXT in picturebox over LINE command????

When I am inserting text into my picture box, the text does not clear the lines drawn with the line command. Only the parts of the text that actually touches the line are destroyed. And when I do a 'space' it does not erase any of the line.
Are ASCII characters not blocks that should always take up the same amount of space when using 'Courier'???? I need for the text to be clear not have parital lines through it.

Anyone have a fix???????????

thanx

I'm not sure what you mean by "Only the parts of the text that actually touches the line are destroyed", but try changing the picturebox's FontTransparent property to False, or using the Cls statement to completely clear the picturebox before redrawing something new onto it.