WC - Word Count : Counts lines, words and characters in textfile,
                  optionally counts long words and sentences and
                  computes "fog-index" for text readability.

Title   : WC
Version : 2.4
Date    : Feb 20, 2000
Author  : J.R. Ferguson, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Download: http://hello.to/ferguson
E-mail  : j.r.ferguson@iname.com


Usage  : WC [[<]in] [>out] [/option[...] [...]]

Options: H     Send this help text to (redirected) output.
         F[n]  Count sentences and words with length>n, compute fog-index.
               n=1..255, default 9.
Remarks:
- Wordstar document files are handled correctly.
- Hyphens are recognized and do not count to word length.
- Character count does not include line separators (CR,LF)
- Line count includes empty lines.
- Counters can hold a maximum value of 2147483647. No overflow check.
- Fog index (Robert Gunning,1952) is computed as 0.4 * (W/S + L*100/W)
  where W = word count
        S = sentence count
        L = long word count (Gunning: length >9).
  Long sentences and long words will increase the fog index.

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The program was written mainly in Borland Turbo Pascal.
Time-critical routines were written in Borland Turbo Assembler, using
the Intel 8086/8088 CPU instruction set.
It was tested with MS-DOS versions 3.2, 5.0, 6.0 and 6.2.

This software is donated to Public Domain and may be used without charge.
It is provided on an "as is" basis without warranty of any kind, expressed
or implied. The author will not be liable for any damages caused by using
this software.

The distribution archive file WC22.ZIP contains:
  WC.EXE      Executable program (LZE compressed)
  WC.TXT      The text you are reading now
  WC.PAS      Pascal source
  WCLIB.ASM   Optional assembler routines
  WCLIB.OBJ   Same, in object format

History:
v2.4  Feb 21,2000 - Changed author's Internet address.
v2.3  Feb 13,2000 - Some cosmethical changes.
v2.2  Dec 01,1996
(No earlier history data available)
