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Subject: Re: vi format command...
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Date: 13 Sep 89 17:20:12 GMT
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> The examples given in a response to this query, using the "fmt" command,
> look to be very good. Unfortunately, they also seem to be BSD-specific.
> I can find "fmt" in my BSD manuals, but there's no sign of it on our
> SysV Unisys systems. There IS a "newform" command under SysV, but it 
> doesn't appear to do what is needed -- it seems to work on a line-at-a-time
> basis, and does not appear to have any options that would cause it to
> work for reformatting whole paragraphs or larger text chunks.
> 
> Does anyone out there have a SysV solution to this question?
> 
> Regards, Will Martin

I use the same thing, but with "adjust".  adjust works on larger chunks;
looks, like similar options too.  It's a simple formatter, not meant to be
anything fancy (like nroff or troff).  This is on HP-UX 6.5.


Randy Merrell
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University of Idaho                              -- Phil. 4:4
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