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From: swi@cs.paisley.ac.uk (S. Wilson)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: atype.c & ctype.c -- simple text statistics
Message-ID: <211@paisley.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 05:13:51 EST
Article-I.D.: paisley.211
Posted: Thu Oct 30 05:13:51 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Nov-86 06:17:54 EST
References: <2269@j.cc.purdue.edu> <194@bsiao.UUCP>
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In article <194@bsiao.UUCP> uh@bsiao.UUCP (Uul Haanstra) writes:
>> Keywords: ctype, ascii, classification
>> 
>> The following two short programs calculate simple text statistics,
>> and occasionally come in handy; I'm sending these out in net.sources
>> in the hopes of garnering useful comments on them.  They tend to
>> be useful in debugging from time to time.
>> 
>This surely is a joke. I remember, my first Fortran program had to
>count character frequencies. Then later on, my first Algol and my first
>Pascal did the same (actually, my first Pascal program made the 
>Pascal triangle, but that is neither here nor there).
>But this is ridiculous, now the net is being swamped by this sort
>of 'utilities'. Useful in debugging it says. In debugging what?
>The compiler? The disks (I wrote 256 a's and 321 b's, and now I only get
>255 a's)? If I want to know what's in a file, I look at it, or use
>od, or even sed or awk if I need a filter.
>> 
>> A future release (in mod.sources) will include appropriate manual pages,
>> and whatever enhancements result from comments made by readers.
>> 
>Please don't. 
>
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Totaly agree with you, what a load of absolute rubbish. Manual page; INDEED!.


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