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Counting Words: Summary of Replies

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From: Steve Goldfield
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 00:20
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In case anyone else is interested:
The main lead I got was to grep-wc-12.hqx
at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Unfortunately,
this program only sees MacWrite files and
text files. I'm not sure what version of
MacWrite it is set up for, but unless you
have it, you have to save your file as text
to get a correct count. The program seems
to have a lot of UNIX-like functions but
doesn't come with documentation.

Somebody else mentioned wc.hqx, also at sumex.
I downloaded it, but I didn't get a launchable
application so I don't know what it's for.

A few people mentioned that Word 4.0 counts,
but it is apparently very slow. It seems I'm
not the only one nostalgic for some of the
useful and well-implemented features I had
available on CP/M machines. My hazy recollection
is that Magic Wand gave you the word and character
count as a standard feature.

Steve Goldfield
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