From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SUBJ_OBFU_PUNCT_FEW autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 30461 invoked from network); 29 May 2020 01:25:58 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 29 May 2020 01:25:58 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6899E9CA4A; Fri, 29 May 2020 11:25:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1DD99CA2F; Fri, 29 May 2020 11:25:22 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2A2BD9C91F; Fri, 29 May 2020 11:25:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail.cs.dartmouth.edu (mail.cs.dartmouth.edu [129.170.212.100]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF5339C863 for ; Fri, 29 May 2020 11:25:18 +1000 (AEST) Received: from tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (tahoe.cs.dartmouth.edu [129.170.212.20]) by mail.cs.dartmouth.edu (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 04T1P30D1817674 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 21:25:03 -0400 Received: from tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.14.3) with ESMTP id 04T1P3WP055698 for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 21:25:03 -0400 Received: (from doug@localhost) by tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 04T1P2Mp055697 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 21:25:02 -0400 From: Doug McIlroy Message-Id: <202005290125.04T1P2Mp055697@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 21:25:02 -0400 To: tuhs@tuhs.org User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] fmt(1): history, POSIX, -t, -c X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" The title of the fmt man page in v9 was "ultra-simple text formatter". Gnu dropped the "ultra" in favor of AI. Sometimes it does a pretty job. Sometimes it messes up my typing style. Always it produces a an apparently wavering right margin, as it assigns a separate "optimal" line length to each paragraph. It's hard to imagine how this command could stray from classic Unix simplicity and intelligibility, but Gnu pulled it off. Doug