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fmt man page misdescribes --prefix


From: Edward Welbourne
Subject: fmt man page misdescribes --prefix
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:58:55 +0200
User-agent: SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.6 (Marutamachi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI)

From fmt(1):

       -p, --prefix=STRING
              combine only lines having STRING as prefix

However, by experiment, I find that it also uses STRING as prefix when
splitting lines.  The man page should say this !  Indeed, the info
page is more helpful and indicates that the above is quite misleading.

        Eddy.




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