From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:25:49 +0200 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] fmt(1) standard behaviour Topicbox-Message-UUID: 89f35252-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I may not fully understand the problem, but wouldn't it be just fine if fmt output anything it can already output? I.e., filled lines are output, on encountering '\n' the (generally unfilled) line is output... (Or what is the reason that fmt waits for EOF?) R