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olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

>fish@daacdev1.stx.com (John Vanderpool) writes:
>| the irix version of the "fold" command breaks words in the middle if
>| they fall where the break "-width" occurs.  hpux has an option called -s
>| which will:
>| 
>|       -s             Break the line on the last blank character found before
>|                      the specified number of column positions.  If none are
>|                      found, break the line at the specified line length.
>| 
>| this is VERY useful, any plans on a similar funtion in irix?  or i guess
>| i'll have to go get the GNU fold (does anyone know if it does it?  is it
>| in GNU fileutils?)

>No plans to add it that I know of, but it seems to me that this is
>no different than using "fmt"...

well, after a few other replies stating that i seemed to think so too, but
there is a MAJOR difference, fmt tries to nicely format ALL of the text
into paragraphs.

thus, if you pass something into it that you don't want that done to (90%
of any text i use) it doesn't work right -- fold just takes lines that
are longer than the specified width and folds them over - quite a difference.

				fish
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