wtch program

Documentation for the wtch program is below, with links to related programs in the "see also" section.

{version = 1.17; (* of wtch.p 2001 April 10}

(* begin module describe.wtch *)
(*
name
   wtch: what characters are in a file? (unix version)

synopsis
   wtch(input: in, output: out)

files
   input: the file to be studied
   output: an alphabetic list of the characters in the file, giving:
      the character,
      the ordinal number of the character (pascal ord function),
      how many such characters are in the file,
      and the percent of the character in the file.
      Comment lines begin with "**".

description
   Sometimes it is necessary to determine what characters are in a file.
   if the file is very large, it is not possible to do this by hand.

see also
   whatch.p

author
   Thomas Schneider

bugs
   none known

technical notes
   The constant maxchars determines the number of characters accepted.

*)
(* end module describe.wtch *)
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