[ILUG] Remember pr? or Printing long lines of text

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:19:41PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Paul J Collins thought:
> >>>>> "CD" == Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net> writes:
> 
>     CD> I seem to recall using pr to format long lines of text in a
>     CD> file for printing.  Anything greater that 70-80 chars gets
>     CD> truncated normally but piping through pr used to do it.  But
>     CD> it doesn't work now!
> 
> fmt will do word-wrapping.

yup, that's what I was looking for.

Thanks.
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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