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From: jpr@hombre.masa.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: Need help on a Unix utility to format text.
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Date: 26 Oct 90 16:53:43 GMT
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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.
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