Is there a simple command line tool (?roff) to justify text with preferably 
left and right justification or auto line-wrapping and unwrapping?

Recall a discussion when Dexter left the list about his last email that was
fully left and right justified without additional spaces.  Ralph said, "How
quickly we forget the wonders of troff."

Here is the scenario:  Vim has a nice feature that will format text wether
it is too long for a line or nor long enough to fill it.  By typing gqq I
can format a line or with a few other commands a whole block of text.  I've
switched to nvi a less feature enhanced clone of vi.  Why use one with less
features?  To restrict myself and thus to learn a more universal vi command
set.  In nvi when I type, it auto line-wraps.  However if I go back and edit
that line, I might end up with a less than full line.  I then manually have
to adjust each line in the paragraph.  Is there a standard vi key command to
do this automatically?  Or what I'd like is to just type "10_!troff -format" 
and have it automatically justify the text.  

Thanks,
Cory
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