Need help on a Unix utility to format text.

John P. Kole kole at convex.UUCP
Sun Oct 21 04:06:41 AEST 1990


In article <2221 at megadon.UUCP> maxc1222 at ucselx.sdsu.edu (Generic Account 1222) writes:
>
>I need some help!! I'm am looking for a Unix utility that will get
>standard input and format it to 72 columns max. I looked at 'fmt'
>and it was putting the word which fell on the 72nd column on the
>following line.  I need something which will break any word
>at the 72nd column regardless.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>LP

Try colrm(1).



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