On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:28:03PM -0800, Shawn D. McPeek wrote:
>
> The whole world doesn't have to be Linux to use this solution. If your
> AIX box does not have gfmt, you can easily download the software and
> compile it for your AIX box. Worked for me on AIX and HP-UX.
Sure and that is what I did do. I said I used AIX fmt first. I was
merely pointing out that not all "fmt"s are the same or useable in the
way described. With linux so dominant, this point does seem to be missed
sometimes. I have nothing against linux. I think it is great. I just
happen to use an old AIX box.
Cheers, Brian.
> Shawn
>
> Previously, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> %
> % This is indeed a nice solution, although I do not see why you want to
> % send it to this kind of file and not a printer. Let me point out however
> % that the whole world is not linux. The fmt command you use is the Gnu
> % fmt from the textutils Gnu package. Other fmt commands such as the AIX
> % one I tried first do not support what is being done here.
>
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> "Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence"
> -- Time Bandits
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