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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-11-28 22:09:29 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-11-28 22:09:29 +0000
commit8242670e71732acf1221a7817996cd558bdd662b (patch)
tree9df529b21527d5583e8ab8eaf74e3b4420fdce84 /usr.bin
parent5ca98bbb7466146271aaaa931455dd6f274c0aa1 (diff)
Some minor format beautification from FreeBSD and add the AUTHORS
section back in.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/fmt/fmt.139
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1 b/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1
index a6f391352b1..67a934acbac 100644
--- a/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1
+++ b/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: fmt.1,v 1.13 2001/09/05 16:34:54 jakob Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fmt.1,v 1.14 2001/11/28 22:09:28 millert Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)fmt.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\"
-.\" Modified by Gareth McCaughan to describe the new version of `fmt'
-.\" rather than the old one.
.Dd June 6, 1993
.Dt FMT 1
.Os
@@ -69,16 +67,18 @@ The
length defaults
to 65 and the
.Ar maximum
-to 10 more than the goal length.
+to 10 more than the
+.Ar goal
+length.
Alternatively, a single
.Ar width
parameter can be specified either by prepending a hyphen to it or by using
.Fl w .
For example,
-.Dl fmt -w 72 ,
-.Dl fmt -72 ,
+.Dq Li fmt -w 72 ,
+.Dq Li fmt -72 ,
and
-.Dl fmt 72 72
+.Dq Li fmt 72 72
all produce identical output.
The spacing at the beginning of the input lines is preserved in the output,
as are blank lines and interword spacing.
@@ -101,15 +101,20 @@ flag, any change in the amount of whitespace at the start of a line
results in a new paragraph being begun.
.It Fl s
Collapse whitespace inside lines, so that multiple whitespace
-characters are turned into a single space. (Or, at the end of a
+characters are turned into a single space.
+(Or, at the end of a
sentence, a double space.)
.It Fl d Ar chars
Treat the
.Ar chars
(and no others) as sentence-ending characters.
By default the
-sentence-ending characters are full stop, question mark and
-exclamation mark.
+sentence-ending characters are full stop
+.Pq Ql \&. ,
+question mark
+.Pq Ql \&?
+and exclamation mark
+.Pq Ql \&! .
Remember that some characters may need to be
escaped to protect them from your shell.
.It Fl l Ar number
@@ -142,19 +147,19 @@ evening the lines.
.Xr mail 1 ,
.Xr nroff 1
.Sh HISTORY
-An
+The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Bx 3 .
.Pp
The version described herein is a complete rewrite and appeared in
.Ox 2.4 .
-.\" .Sh AUTHOR
-.\" Kurt Shoens
-.\" .br
-.\" Liz Allen (added goal length concept)
-.\" The above are the authors of the old `fmt' program;
-.\" the present one was written by Gareth McCaughan.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Kurt Shoens
+.An Liz Allen
+(added goal length concept)
+.An Gareth McCaughan
+(wrote this version)
.Sh BUGS
The program was designed to be simple and fast \- for more complex
operations, the standard text processors are likely to be more appropriate.