Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:47:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it> Cc: William Bulley <web@merit.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A filter for reformatting paragraphs (WAS: installation) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.970829084528.2290A-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970828213037.3667A-100000@dumbwinter.ecomotor.it>
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On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Marco Molteni wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, William Bulley wrote: > > > According to Marco Molteni: > > > > > > Have you ever tried Par, a filter for reformatting paragraphs ? > > > You can find it in the ports. > > > > I just looked in the ports on a 2.2-970814-RELENG machine and > > could not any "par"... > > > > Could you please be more explicit? Thanks. > > Sure! Have a look at > > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/textproc.html > You'll find par-1.50 > > Cheers > Marco Yes, but don't forget about /usr/bin/fmt. This does an adequate job at reformating paragraphs. I use it form vi all the time with !}fmt cheers, Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/
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