WCX.DOC
                          v1.0 06/08/86

     I  got tired of waiting for WC.EXE to count the words in  my 
files,  so  I wrote this little program that does it over 5 times 
faster.   WCX outputs the number of lines,  words and bytes in  a 
text  file.   It  allows apostrophes,  backspaces and hyphens  as 
internal punctuation,  and counts any combination of letters  and 
numbers as a word.  

     No   word-count  program  can  take  into  account  all  the 
different control codes used by different  word-processors.   WCX 
was  written with WordStar in mind,  and it will be accurate with 
(almost-)pure ascii files.   It kills high bits,  but some  word-
processors  use these for codes which are thereby converted  into 
"words."  In addition, some word-processors  (e.g.,  WordPerfect) 
don't put line feeds after every line in the file; the line count 
in such case really gives the number of paragraphs.

Eric Gans
French Dep't, UCLA
Los Angeles CA 90024