Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!zazen!thomson From: thomson@zazen.macc.wisc.edu (Don Thomson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Splitting up a too-wide text file Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 91 13:28:44 GMT Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 12 I've got a file of ASCII text that has lines that are too long to easily print, formatted in columns. I'd like to run the file through a filter that will essentially break each page in half horizontally at a column break and place the right-hand side of the broken-off text on a new following page, resulting in a new file of reasonable width. I've got a few relatively inelegant solutions in mind, but am interested in suggestions on how other people might approach the problem with an appropriate combination of UNIX tools. Any ideas? -- ----- Don Thomson ----- MACC, 1210 W. Dayton, Madison, WI 53706 ------------- (608) 262-0138 thomson@macc.wisc.edu / thomson@wiscmacc.bitnet