The following reply was made to PR bin/36401; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: andrews@sdf.lonestar.org
Subject: Re: bin/36401: Bug in fmt(1) with lines that start with a period.
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:47:17 -0500 (CDT)

 On Tue, 29 May 2007, andrews@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > fmt(1) does not touch lines starting with a period ".".  This may 
 > actually be a doc-bug: I have not checked the source to determine if 
 > this is in fact a feature (I can see that it would be useful when 
 > processing troff files for instance).  If it is the the man page should 
 > be mentioning it.  If not it should be fixed.
 
 It is a feature. It should be documented.
 
 Also it also doesn't do formatting on some mail headers -- and that 
 should be documented. (man page does mention "format mail messages" 
 though.)
 
 Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD use a complete rewrite
 originally from http://www.mccaughan.org.uk/g/software.html
 
 Both the OpenBSD and FreeBSD CVS include various improvements and fixes 
 beyond the version linked from above.
 
 It has improved man page and several switches to choose the desired 
 behaviour.
 
 Anyone interested in using version from OpenBSD or FreeBSD?
 
 I didn't see any fmt regress script for testing.
 
 
   Jeremy C. Reed