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Re: [ITP] par-1.51 - Greatly enhanced 'fmt' type paragraph reformatter
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "Jari Aalto+mail.linux" <letters at hotpop dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:23:11 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [ITP] par-1.51 - Greatly enhanced 'fmt' type paragraph reformatter
- References: <65djs1gw.fsf@blue.sea.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:
> sdesc: "Greatly enhanced 'fmt' type paragraph reformatter."
> ldesc: "Greatly enhanced 'fmt' type paragraph reformatter by Adam
> M. Costello. Can be used within vi or other editor to automatically
> reformat text in a variety of ways. Perfect for use with email &
> usenet messages as it correctly handles multiple levels of quoting
> characters."
> category: Text
> requires: cygwin
>
> An example [snipped]
> Jari
Jari,
Please check the existing packages before ITPing stuff. There already is
"par" in Cygwin, and it's even newer than what you've ITP'd:
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fpar%28%5C.exe%7C+%7C%24%29>.
Igor
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