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WCX.DOC
v1.0 06/08/86
I got tired of waiting for WC.EXE to count the words in my
files, so I wrote this little program that does it over 5 times
faster. WCX outputs the number of lines, words and bytes in a
text file. It allows apostrophes, backspaces and hyphens as
internal punctuation, and counts any combination of letters and
numbers as a word.
No word-count program can take into account all the
different control codes used by different word-processors. WCX
was written with WordStar in mind, and it will be accurate with
(almost-)pure ascii files. It kills high bits, but some word-
processors use these for codes which are thereby converted into
"words." In addition, some word-processors (e.g., WordPerfect)
don't put line feeds after every line in the file; the line count
in such case really gives the number of paragraphs.
Eric Gans
French Dep't, UCLA
Los Angeles CA 90024
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