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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-19 23:44:58 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-19 23:44:58 +0000
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Use `The .Nm utility'
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@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@
.Op Ar goal Oo Ar maximum Oc | Fl Ns Ar width | Fl w Ar width
.Op Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
.Nm
-is a simple text formatter which reads the concatenation of input
+utility is a simple text formatter which reads the concatenation of input
files (or standard input if none are given) and produces on standard
output a version of its input with lines as close to the
.Ar goal
@@ -137,7 +138,9 @@ spaces per tab stop.
The default is 8.
.El
.Pp
+The
.Nm
+utility
is meant to format mail messages prior to sending, but may also be useful
for other simple tasks.
For instance,
@@ -177,6 +180,7 @@ When the first line of an indented paragraph is very long (more than
about twice the goal length), the indentation in the output can be
wrong.
.Pp
+The
.Nm
-is not infallible in guessing what lines are mail headers and what
+utility is not infallible in guessing what lines are mail headers and what
lines are not.
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