822par is a wrapper
around the powerful but obscure par
text re-formatter to reformat e-mails without making them invalid.
It reformats the mail headers specially, creating continuation lines
when needed, and filters the rest of the mail through par with
appropriate settings.
% cat mail
Subject: This is a badly formatted mail with a very very long subject, in fact much more than 72 characters.
A nice quote:
> There once was a master programmer who wrote unstructured programs. A
> novice programmer,
> seeking to imitate him, also began to write unstructured programs.
> When the novice asked
> the master to evaluate his progress, the master criticized him for
> writing unstructured
> programs, saying: "What is appropriate for the master is not
> appropriate for the novice.
> You must understand the Tao before transcending structure."
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
% 822par mail
Subject: This is a badly formatted mail with a very very long subject, in
fact much more than 72 characters.
A nice quote:
> There once was a master programmer who wrote unstructured programs.
> A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began to write
> unstructured programs. When the novice asked the master to evaluate
> his progress, the master criticized him for writing unstructured
> programs, saying: "What is appropriate for the master is not
> appropriate for the novice. You must understand the Tao before
> transcending structure."
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
NP: Die Schnitter—Traumgeburt