Re: XY concordancer pgm?

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Rene von Rentzell wrote:
>
> Leslie:
> >Could you be a little more specific, please, Rene? I suspect there are
> >XPL routines you could create, but what exactly are you fixin' to do?
>
> Oh, sorry. What I'd like to to is count the incidences of words in a
> document. For example in the above quote, there are 3 "you", 2 "are",
> 1 "XPL", and so on.

Hmm and hmm . . . well I think the best bet is probably an outside
utility for Windows or DOS, similar to the one for OS/2 that Carl has
mentioned. Another thought would be to replace wordspaces with hard
returns and alpha-sort the file--kludgy of course. And I suppose if one
worked at it for awhile one could probably come up with an XPL routine
that could replace a word with itself, which returns a prompt telling
you how many words were replaced, trap that prompt, and place it in an
alternate window. Then, too, if you were interested only in proper
names, batch spelling auto-sorts the words by caps and then lc. If I
think of anything else, I'll reply again.

>
> >I'll have Spam Spam Spam Spam eggs and Spam!
>
> You got that in the internet. Actually, has anybody else noticed how
> markedly the amount of spam has gone down since AGIS.NET finally
> gave the boot to Cyberpromo yesterday? Amazing what a large part of
> that trash actually originated from one single scum of a company.

No, I was unaware of this. Could you brief us?

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Leslie Bialler
Columbia University Press
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