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Subject: Re: Autopost text arrangement problem Date: Tue Sep 13 2022 10:17 am
From: Nicola Mettimano To: Jay Harris

 JH> Since you're using linux, if it's just a plain text file you can use
 JH> something like:
 JH> cat mymessage.txt | fold -s -w 78 > newmessage.txt
 JH> or
 JH> cat mymessage.txt | fmt -w 78 > newmessage.txt
 JH> Which will make your text file no more than 78 characters wide.

Wow very helpful, thanks man ;-)

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