Word Wrapper

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NAME
       wrap - word wrapper

SYNOPSIS
       wrap [-hsV*] [-w width] [file*]

DESCRIPTION
       wrap  acts  as a word wrapper. As such, it reads its input
       (either specified as command line arguments by one or more
       files  or,  if  unspecified, stdin) line by line, trimming
       and rearranging it so that its words smoothly fit into the
       lines,  each  of which contains no more than width charac
       ters after being processed.

       Input lines are not only trimmed to the	specified  width,
       but  also  rearranged  to  provide a left-aligned floating
       text. Floating starts and stops at the beginning  and  the
       end of a new paragraph, respectively.  Paragraphs are rec
       ognized as such by empty lines, that is, lines  that  con
       tain nothing but a single newline character.

OPTIONS
       -h     Displays short help text.

       -s     Removes  special,  that is, unprintable, characters
	      from the input.

       -V     Displays version information.

       -w width
	      Set the output text width to width characters.  The
	      default width is 72.

EXIT CODE
       On success, 0 is returned. Otherwise, 1 is returned.

KNOWN BUGS
       wrap works for continuous text only. Feeding it texts with
       special formatting, indentation or spacing will inevitably
       result in the formatting being destroyed.

SEE ALSO
       fold(1), just(1).

COPYRIGHT
       wrap has been released under the GNU Public License.

AUTHOR
       Pitt Murmann 



			    March 1995			  WRAP(1)