Edit User's Guide and Reference Manual

JOIN Command
EDIT Command Summary
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JOIN Command The JOIN command treats a contiguous block of nonblank lines as a
paragraph. Within a paragraph, the JOIN command moves words between
lines so that each line contains as many words as possible within a specified
width. A word is defined as (1) any character string that is preceded and
followed by a space or any character other than a number or letter or (2)
any character string that occurs at the end of a line.
What to Enter JOIN [ QUIET ] { line-range } [ WIDTH rightcolumn ]
QUIET
tells the EDIT program not to list the lines as they are joined.
line-range
references one or more contiguous lines in an EDIT file. Turn to “Line-
Range Parameter” in Section 5 for a full explanation of this range.
WIDTH
specifies the maximum number of characters to be placed on each line
in the range during execution of the command.
rightcolumn
is a number from 1 to 255. If you omit WIDTH, EDIT uses the
rightcolumn value specified by the JOIN parameter of the SET
command. (The default for rightcolumn is 70).