RE: tlug: Counting words

[David Dibben <dibben@example.com>]

On 09-Sep-98 Neil Fergusson wrote:
>> Thanks everyone for letting me know about wc.  I had never
>> heard of it before.  I'll also want to try to detex it
>> to get a more accurate reading, so I'll look for that, but
>> if anyone knows of a good source, it would help me if
>> you could let me know.
> 
> I have used detex, but it seems to have lost continued support.
> It is useful not only for doing word counts, but also for
> spell checking.
> 
> If you find it (presumeably by grepping through the ls-l file 
> at one of the CTAN mirrors), please let us know the URL.

I got my copy as an rpm package from the SuSE distribution, actually from

ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/SuSE-Linux/5.3/suse/tex1/detex.rpm


David

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E-Mail: David Dibben <dibben@example.com>
Date: 09-Sep-98
Time: 10:40:43
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