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pflow: Flow paragraphs

What pflow is

pflow may be used to 'flow' paragraphs of text, made up up multiple lines, into paragraphs consisting of single lines as required by Andrew for proper display in variable width windows. Input comes from standard input and output is written to standard output.

The following conversions also take place on the data:

Strings of multiple blanks are converted to a single blank.

Two blanks are placed after a sentence ending in '.', '?' or '!'.

Leading blanks on a paragraph are removed.

Tabs are converted to a blank.

Quick reference

The complete command syntax is:

pflow

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