29 May
2020
29 May
'20
5:19 a.m.
On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 7:10:50 +0200, Michael Stiller via TUHS wrote:
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&a…
Greg
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On 29. May
2020, at 02:18, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
On Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 9:30:09 -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
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. 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.
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