Phil Mendelsohn wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Simeon Johnston wrote:
>
> > I just converted a postscript doc to ascii!  Yay!
> > I am wondering if there is a way to wrap the text at 80 characters (or
> > the width of the screen) with formatting.  No splitting words by dumping
> > the rest of the sentence on the next line).
>
> Can't you pipe it through pr or fold or one of the other *nix text
> formatting tools?  I guarantee it can be done, but don't recall exactly
> which one you want.  'apropos wrap' might help.

Yes.
fold -w 72 -s AsciiFile
Very nice.  Width 72 and break at spaces.  Pipe to file.  Done.
Pr doesn't seem to do the same thing.  I don't want to paginate it anyway.

Thanks,
sim