Linebreaks

I am using chilisoft ASP on a linux server and using MySQL for the database side of things.I have a text area post on the site where several paragraphs have to be entered.

No problem so far,the only trouble is when retrieving the data,paragraphs have disappeared.Now I have seen a few different ways that supposedly cure this problem:

Strdescription = replace(RS("description"), "vbcrlf", "<br>")

Strdescription = replace(RS("description"), "chr(10)", "<br>")

Unfortunately none of these work. Now I am sure I am either coding this incorrectly or there is another very simple way of doing it.