Re: [Wvware-users] Word count in wvSummary appears to be wrong

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 05:08:02PM -0700, Kevin Tory wrote:
> I downloaded and installed wvWare yesterday.  My main
> need is to count words in a document.  I ran the
> wvSummary on a number of files.  The first was an 8
> word document.  The count said 5.  The file was all
> text.  I then tried a 2500 word document - the count
> was 400 short.  I have tried Word 2000 and Word 95
> files.  I tried a file from WordPad, which produces
> Word 6 files, but the wvSummary didn't like it.
> 
> If I convert the file to text, I get all of the text. 
> Push comes to shove, I'll convert it to text and count
> the words myself, but this is not my first choice.

Well, you can use wc (wordcount), a standard Unix utility, instead of
counting it yourself.  It gives characters, words, and lines as
output.

Cheers,
  Ian