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From: mh@awds23.imsd.contel.com (Mike Hoegeman)
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Subject: Re: !}fmt in elvis?
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In article <18588@smunews.UUCP> rrb@smunews.UUCP (Robert R. Bailey) writes:
>I have a question about elvis 1.4.  Is there any way to reformat a
>paragraph, like using !}fmt in real vi?

!}fmt works OK for me using elvis under unix. maybe you have an ancient
version of elvis or maybe you are using a DOS version that does not let
you fork child processes. (I just used !}fmt to format this message
with elvis on a sparcstation 2 using the X11/NeWS version of elvis).