Wc(V1.0)                 ARPTOOLS Manual                 Wc(V1.0)



     NAME
          Wc - Text statistics

     SYNOPSIS
          Mr Files/... PRINT/S CHECK/S
          
     DESCRIPTION
          Wc performs various statistics over Files/... (wildcards
          supported) or otherwise over the standard input.
          If more than one file is examined the output will be
          formatted in columns.
          Statistics include the number of charachters, the number
          of alphabetic charachters, the number of words of alphabetic
          charachters, their average lenght, the number of words of
          printable charachters, the number of lines. If the CHECK
          switch is used a simple checksum is performed.
          A word is a string of charachters separated by blanks
          TABs or newlines.

     OPTIONS
          PRINT
              Skip any non-printable charachter.

          CHECK
              Perform a simple, two part checksum: the first part
              is the number of printable charachters in the file,
              the second is the sum of numbers assigned to every
              ASCII charachter in the file through an internal
              table. If the checksum of two files differ they are
              not identical.
              This checksum should be compatible with the checksum
              performed by the WC utilty in the Lattice C v5.0x
              package.

     BUGS
          None known.



















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