On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:38:35AM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, kevin lyda wrote: > > i find fmt to be more standard across unicies. > > that's arguable (fmt is likely to be installed, but like most Unix > utilities would have version dependencies - par is a relative latecomer > and is not installed). > > There's a difference between installed and standard of course - X/Open > documents the latter.
now that I'm home & can look it up, I see that by its omission from X/Open's list, fmt can be regarded as nonstandard. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
