Par (command)

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The computer command par is part of the Unix operating system and is used in text formatting. The command effectively replaces white characters with space characters while revising word connections and line transitions for a more easily read text block.

[edit] References

  1. Costello, Adam M. (2001). "par.doc". Accessed August 4, 2005.

Par is a text processing utility (paragraph reformatter) attributed to Kamil Toman. It used to be accessible from http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ par. It is supposed to be a better version of the fmt command.

Other means of accessing online resource for par are :

Adam Costello's page: http://www.nicemice.net/par/ par

Cygwin package list (par/par-1.42-1) (search for paragraph reformatter on http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ Cygwin Package List Search Results

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