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slakmagik effa2deca6 misc/par: Miscellaneous cleanups 
Remove a bashism (pattern substitution in parameter expansion) and use
SRCNAM, instead. Remove unneeded comments. Tweak strip boilerplate.
Incoporate gzip in the sed of the man page and remove useless old-style
man page boilerplate. Make comments clearer. Fix a misaligned ruler in
the slack-desc.

Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
2011-03-01 09:37:20 -06:00
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par.info Various: updated maintainer email address 2010-07-03 15:52:10 -05:00
par.SlackBuild misc/par: Miscellaneous cleanups 2011-03-01 09:37:20 -06:00
README misc/par: Added to 13.0 repository 2010-05-13 00:59:29 +02:00
slack-desc misc/par: Miscellaneous cleanups 2011-03-01 09:37:20 -06:00

README 

par is a paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better.

For example, the command "par 44gqr", given the input:

        John Q. Public writes:
        > Jane Doe writes:
        > >
        > > May I remind people that this newsgroup
        > > is for posting binaries only.  Please keep
        > > all discussion in .d where it belongs.
        > Who appointed you net.god?
        > I'll discuss things here if I feel like it.
        Could you two please take this to e-mail?

        **********************************************
        ** Main's Law: For every action there is an **
        ** equal and opposite government program.   **
        **********************************************

Would produce the output:

        John Q. Public writes:

        > Jane Doe writes:
        >
        > > May I remind people that this
        > > newsgroup is for posting
        > > binaries only.  Please keep
        > > all discussion in .d where it
        > > belongs.
        >
        > Who appointed you net.god?  I'll
        > discuss things here if I feel like
        > it.

        Could you two please take this to
        e-mail?

        ************************************
        ** Main's Law: For every action   **
        ** there is an equal and opposite **
        ** government program.            **
        ************************************