atype.c & ctype.c -- simple text statistics

[S. Wilson]

In article <194 at bsiao.UUCP> uh at 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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