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Article #295Re: Need help on a Unix utility to format text.
From: Jean-Pierre Radley
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 1990 16:53
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 1990 16:53
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In article <2221@megadon.UUCP> maxc1222@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Generic Account 1222) writes: >I need some help!! I'm am looking for a Unix utility that will get >standard input and format it to 72 columns max. I looked at 'fmt' >and it was putting the word which fell on the 72nd column on the >following line. I need something which will break any word >at the 72nd column regardless. Cheap and dirty approach: Try running nroff on your input. Without any macros defined at all, it seems to default to right-justified 72 column text. Two consecutive line-feeds in the input tell it to start a new paragraph. It also will issue line-feeds to come to some multiple of 66 lines. -- Jean-Pierre Radley HIGH-Q jpr@jpradley CIS: 72160,1341
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!apple!altos!megadon!clp From: jpr@hombre.masa.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) Newsgroups: comp.unix Subject: Re: Need help on a Unix utility to format text. Message-ID: <2237@megadon.UUCP> Date: 26 Oct 90 16:53:43 GMT References: <2221@megadon.UUCP> Sender: clp@megadon.UUCP Reply-To: uunet!hombre.masa.com!jpradley!jpr (Jean-Pierre Radley) Organization: High-Q Lines: 17 Approved: clp@megadon.UUCP