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Subject: Re: cvs, reviews, and file formats
From: Howard Shane ####@####.####
Date: 9 Jun 2004 23:56:19 -0000
Message-Id: <20040609235628.GA25808@K7.austin.rr.com>

On 06/09/04 16:09:00, s. keeling wrote:
> it appears to have been written in something that does Windows
> style "format=flowed" paragraphs.  In other words, three hundred
> character long lines.

Just try the following at a bash prompt:

    fmt -u -w 80 infile > outfile

...where -w is the with in characters you desire.

Part of gnu coreutils, so should be on any Linux system.

hs

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