On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 7:10:50 +0200, Michael Stiller via TUHS wrote: >> On 29. May 2020, at 02:18, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 9:30:09 -0400, Clem Cole wrote: >>> fmt was originally written by Kurt Shoens at UCB when he worked in Mail and >>> delivermail. >> >> That agrees with the FreeBSD man page: >> >> HISTORY >> The fmt command appeared in 3BSD. >> ... > > It is also included in 2.9BSD, or was it backported: > > ... > > BUGS > The program was designed to be simple and fast - for more > complex operations, the standard text processors are likely > to be more appropriate. This paragraph is also in the FreeBSD man page, verbatim. The whole man page is at https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fmt&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+12.1-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA