HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1 User Commands A-M (vol 1)

adjust(1) adjust(1)

WARNINGS

This program is designed to be simple and fast. It does not recognize backslash to escape white space or

other characters. It does not recognize tagged paragraphs where the tag is on a line by itself. It knows

that lines end in newline or null, and how to deal with tabs and backspaces, but it does not do anything spe-

cial with other characters such as form feed (they are simply ignored). For complex operations, standard

text processors are likely to be more appropriate.

This program could be implemented instead as a set of independent programs, ﬁll, center, and justify (with

the -r option). However, this would be much less efﬁcient in actual use, especially given the program’s

special knowledge of tagged paragraphs and last lines of paragraphs.

AUTHOR

adjust was developed by HP.