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Re: Counting characters in a string...bourne

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From: Paul S. Sawyer
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 1990 19:26
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In article <1990Oct10.212943.9227@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
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>Overkill.  Let nroff do it.

But AT&T has determined that nroff is too powerful a tool to include with
System V (V.2, anyway...)  (Documenter's Workbench optional at extra cost...)

>Or, in Perl:

OK.  The price is right, anyway.  (Then there's always AWF!  B-)


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From: paul@unhtel.uucp (Paul S. Sawyer)
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Subject: Re: Counting characters in a string...bourne
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