Altos XENIX/SCO XENIX

Mark Horton mark at cbnews.ATT.COM
Fri Jan 20 07:54:10 AEST 1989


In article <2148 at van-bc.UUCP> dbinette at 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



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