Subject: Re: bin/36401: Bug in fmt(1) with lines that start with a period.
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/29/2007 11:29:04
On May 29,  3:05pm, reed@reedmedia.net ("Jeremy C. Reed") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/36401: Bug in fmt(1) with lines that start with a period.

|  It is a feature. It should be documented.

I just did.

|  
|  Also it also doesn't do formatting on some mail headers -- and that 
|  should be documented. (man page does mention "format mail messages" 
|  though.)

Again.

|  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.

Such as?

|  It has improved man page and several switches to choose the desired 
|  behaviour.

Our has now too.

|  Anyone interested in using version from OpenBSD or FreeBSD?
|  
|  I didn't see any fmt regress script for testing.

Neither did I.

christos