fmt -127 < juneissue >juneissue.txt <cr> I think should do what you want. Remember, fmt regards blank lines as paragraph breaks. On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Hart Larry wrote: > Well, good to see this list coming alive--and-I guess Tim's on a roll. > I converted a pdf and since there are mostly only 38 characters accross an > average line, I understand fmt for format will alter this? However, in > reading the man-page, seems to be written in a style of a mathamatical > equation. Can some1 please explain an exact sequence to convert a file > june-issue.txt > to at least 127 columns. Can I do this without renaming, or is that a must? > When I was successful--and-used the same name, it says, "already exsists" > Here on shellworld, a freebsd system, somewhat different fmt from the version > I have on my hard-drive in debian squeeze. > Now, somewhat unrelated, on my hard-drive, I would like to greatly expand > number of lines-and-columns from my current 48lines by 127columns. Some1 from > our LUG says there's something unusual about my Intel hardware, as he has > somewhere around 73lines. > Is their something I can try on the fly, without rebooting, to see if we can > increase? > Thanks in advance on both these subjects > Hart > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list