chuq@plaid.UUCP (06/18/87)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 87 19:16:23 PDT
From: hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore)
The review of Doug Clapp Word Tools never did mention exactly what they
do, but I thought you-all might be interested in a source code, public domain
alternative. Bill Tuthill wrote a collection of programs called "hum"
while working for the Humanities Dept. at Berserkeley. Here is a summary:
A new package of programs for literary and linguistic computing
is available, emphasizing the preparation of concordances and
supporting documents. Both keyword in context and keyword and
line generators are provided, as well as exclusion routines, a
reverse concordance module, formatting programs, a dictionary
maker, and lemmatization facilities. There are also word,
character, and digraph frequency counting programs, word length
tabulation routines, a cross reference generator, and other
related utilities. The programs are written in the C
programming language, and implemented on several Version 7 Unix
systems at Berkeley. They should be portable to any system
that has a C compiler and which supports some kind of pipe mechanism.
I have a copy of these if you are interested; the sources and documentation
run about 200K. With major interest, I could post them to
comp.sources.unix.
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