[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nospam-942E9C.15475402022013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> > Just out of curiosity, I just looked at a couple of manpages on a
> > FreeBSD system and none of them exhibited this straight-right-margin
> > of which you speak.
> 
> uname -sr
> FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p1
> man bash
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>   Bash  is  an  sh-compatible  command language interpreter that executes
>   commands read from the standard input or from a file.  Bash also incor-
>   porates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
> 
>   Bash  is  intended  to  be a conformant implementation of the Shell and
>   Utilities portion  of  the  IEEE  POSIX  specification  (IEEE  Standard
>   1003.1).  Bash can be configured to be POSIX-conformant by default.
> 
> (edited to strip first 5 spaces of each line to avoid wrapping in this 
> post)
> 
> Note how multiple spaces are distributed along the lines to get right 
> justification.

The question is which is better.  I prefer the ragged right for a
fixed-width font. 

There was/is a poster, maybe John Forkosh, who sometimes posts 
completely justified posts---WITHOUT any additional spacing.