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- From: nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Galactic subservient raisin pennies" Neilski)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: What do *you* use to format mail?
- Message-ID: <nrp.724506949@reading>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 11:55:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec13.091156.19462@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- Nntp-Posting-Host: pinewood
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- osiris@halcyon.com (David Ruggiero) writes:
-
- >Now that I've finally learned how to send what I'm editing with vi
- >through a filter, I'd like to automate my most tedious emailing task...
- >The idea here is to find (and give credit to) the lone hacker out there
- >with the most fiendishly elegant sed/awk/nawk/perl/shell routine to format
- >their mail messages. By this, I mean at the least taking a block of
- >random text and:
-
- >1) Evenly formatting the lines to a preset (or specified) length,
- > performing concatenations and wrapping as necessary.
-
- If you mean right-justifying the text, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't! Fully
- justified fixed-width text is much harder to read than non-justified.
-
- If you mean just limiting line length, look at fmt(1).
-
- -- neilski
-
- --
- RADIO CRACKER - 103.6 FM \--------------------------------------------------
- ----------------------------\ You come here to my daughter's wedding,
- but you show me no respect. You ask me to listen to ... Radio Cracker.
-