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 Message 8138 
 Dan Cross to Grant Weasner 
 Re: text reformating 
 21 May 25 00:53:25 
 
TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48
MSGID: 3:770/100 26c91850
REPLY: 269.fidonet_linux@1:138/397 2c9021b0
TZUTC: 1200
On 19 May 2025 at 01:24a, Grant Weasner pondered and said...
 
 GW> I want to convert all of my text files in many directories into a gopher
 GW> fiendly format.
 GW> 
 GW> Gopher friendly:
 GW> 1) 64 columns wide.
 GW> 2) any indents will remain, but if a line goes beyond 64 cols, the
 GW> remaining characters will go to the line below but indent to the same
 GW> column as the prior line.
 GW> 
 GW> This seems pretty difficult and I'm wondering how others would approch
 GW> this task.

`fmt` or `par`.

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