Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Re: A Versatile fmt command

On 2012-01-31, howard Schwartz wrote:
> hi, More adventures with my Blind friend. Sun's version of fmt, let all lines
> starting with a dot (.) alone, in deferrence to he unix markup language,
> Troff. The Redhat version of fmt, does not do that.

Apparently the OpenBSD version of fmt recognizes troff tags while
the GNU version does not. One solution to your friend's problem
would be to obtain the OpenBSD source, e.g., from
http://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/src/usr.bin/fmt/
and build it yourself. It appears really easy to build.

Regards,
Gary

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