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NAME

       mailfmt - Reformat mail/news to wrap lines and remove quotation
       characters


SYNOPSIS

       mailfmt [-ahiorv] [-c char] [-w num]


DESCRIPTION

       'mailfmt' is a Unix and Win32 tool for reformatting news and mail
       messages.  It removes leading quotations strings (most often the '>'
       character, but this is user selectable from the command line) and wraps
       lines to a user specified width.  This allows news or mail messages
       which have been extensively forwarded and/or quoted to be easily
       reformatted for ease of reading.

       On Unix systems, 'mailfmt' reads from stdin and writes to stdout.

       On Win32 systems, 'mailfmt' reads from the clipboard and then writes
       the results to the clipboard.  This is really handy if your are running
       a GUI mail client.  You cut the desired text (thereby placing it on the
       clipboard).  Then you run 'mailfmt' - this is best done with a keyboard
       shortcut - Then paste back to your mail client and, voila!, your text
       has been reformatted.

       On Win32 systems, the input and output can be reassigned to stdin and
       stdout respectively, using the -i and -o options.

       Normally, errors on a Win32 system will appear as GUI Message Boxes.
       If, however, you choose to output to stdout via the -o option, all
       errors will be written there instead.


OPTIONS

       -a     Do not remove leading quotation characters. (Default: Remove
              leading quotation characters.)

       -c character
              Change the quotation character to 'char'.  (Default: '>')

       -h     Display help information.

       -i     Get input from stdin.  On Unix systems, this is the only
              possible option for input and need not be specified.  However,
              on Win32 systems, input to defaults to the clipboard.  This
              option overrides that default allowing Win32 systems to read
              from stdin.

       -o     Send output to stdout.  On Unix systems, this is the only
              possible option for output and need not be specified.  However,
              on Win32 systems, output defaults to the clipboard.  This option
              overrides that default allowing Win32 systems to write to
              stdout.

       -r     Do not wrap lines to specified width. (Default: Wrap lines)

       -v     Display detailed version information.

       -w val Set line wrapping width to 'val'.  (Default: 75)


OTHER

       You must have a reasonably current copy of 'python' installed for
       'mailfmt' to operate.


BUGS AND MISFEATURES

       None known as of this release.  This is not beautiful code.  It is very
       hackish in places.


COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING

       'mailfmt' is Copyright(c) 2002 TundraWare Inc.  For terms of use, see
       the mailfmt-License.txt file in the program distribution.  If you
       install 'mailfmt' on a FreeBSD system using the 'ports' mechanism, you
       will also find this file in /usr/local/share/doc/mailfmt.


AUTHOR

       Tim Daneliuk
       tundra@tundraware.com

                                  TundraWare                        mailfmt(1)

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