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Re: Reformatting in vi

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From: Jay Maynard
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1988 00:23
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In article <2567@encore.UUCP>, pierson@encore.UUCP (Dan Pierson) writes:
> As an emacs hacker, I should probably stay out fo this but you might try:
> 	!'afmt
> which will produce no blank lines.  Or, if I misremember vi correctly,
> just move to the start of the paragraph and incant:
> 	!}fmt

There's only one little problem here;
fmt isn't a standard Unix command. It may be a standard BSD command, but it
wasn't on my System V.
If it's PD, is there a place I can snarf it? (I can even FTP, if I can
convince a friend...)

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Message-ID: <363@splut.UUCP>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay
References: <2567@encore.UUCP>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay
From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Reformatting in vi
Message-ID: <363@splut.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 88 00:23:46 GMT
References: <2567@encore.UUCP>
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Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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Summary: Not everyone can use !}fmt.