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This is a (non-commercial) announcement for a programme I've written. 
I'm posting the announcement to the groups there might where be people 
that are interested. (So beware if you follow-up!)

FREQUENCY is a programme that reads a text and generates a frequency
table for the words in the text. The basic idea is that spelling errors
due to carelessness often appears just once or twice. Thus, checking
through these groups will help you to spot them. Alas, the group of
words with just one occurrence is about 40-50% of all words. Anyway,
it is a good help to get the words separated.

Compared with the famous Unix programme "spell", FREQUENCY requires
much more work of the user. However, the human eye sees more. "Spell"
won't complain about "witch" in a technical specification, but you
perhaps would? And "spell" only works only for English. I'd assume
there are similar programmes for other languages, but at least the 
only Swedish I know of has a very poor dictionary. And finally,
"Spell" doesn't what a syllabication is. FREQUENCY does. Even if
they cross page boundaries.

The principle of FREQUENCY makes it almost language independent.
It must know which characters that are letters. This is not obvious
with a 7-bit set. It is also fond of trying to sort correctly. There 
is direct support for Swedish, Danish, German, English, French and 
Italian.

I do not intend to post the code directly to the net, since all of
it is written in Swedish. Only user manual is available in English.
Instead those who are interested, mail me and I send you a copy.
If there is a *huge* interest, I will post it to comp.os.vms.
The programme is written in VAX-Pascal, thus it only runs on VMS. 

There is a Unix version too, although not really as fancy as V3,
the current version. It does all the basic work, though. That one
is written in Ada. If you are really hot, I could try to put 
something together for you.
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Erland Sommarskog       
ENEA Data, Stockholm    
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