Bluehost : banning using user agent in .htaccess

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This is a bluehost question posted by jlo on 07 June 2006

Here is a really newbie question. I am banning robots using .htaccess by both ip and user agent. For user agents I use a block of code like this…

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^Mo College 1.9″ bad_bot

Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_bot
When I use cp panel/file manager to edit the .htaccess file and try to ban a longer user agent, the line splits into two lines and then is not recognized by the compiler. How can I ban longer user agent like this…

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