Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:4551 comp.mail.uucp:2656 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!cbnews!mark From: mark@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Altos XENIX/SCO XENIX Message-ID: <3273@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 19 Jan 89 21:54:10 GMT References: <397@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US> <439@acheron.UUCP> <210@tiamat.FSC.COM> <598@tapa.UUCP> <402@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US> <2148@van-bc.UUCP> Reply-To: mark@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 15 In article <2148@van-bc.UUCP> dbinette@van-bc.UUCP (Dave Binette) writes: >For example the wc command: >normally it behaved like the standard Word Count programme >it counted words lines and characters. >Linking it to wclptb or some such radically enhanced it to also provide >info on # of 66 line pages, transmisssion time at various baud rates etc. > >This was discovered by running 'strings' on the wc programme. Sounds like the -v (verbose) option I added to the 4.0BSD wc command. You might try "wc -v" to see if it gives all that stuff. (It's not in 4.3BSD's wc, Rob Pike made them take it out.) I have an alias "count=wc -v" to use this. Mark