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  1.           PARSE                               Michael J. Mefford
  2.           Command                                     1987/No. 2
  3.  
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  5.  
  6.           Purpose:  Displays the number of characters, words, and
  7.                     sentences in ASCII text files.
  8.  
  9.           Format:   PARSE [d:][path]filename
  10.  
  11.           Remarks:  PARSE also calculates and reports the
  12.                     averages of the numbers of characters per
  13.                     word, words per sentence, and "long" words (8
  14.                     or more characters).  It uses these to
  15.                     calculate and display an approximation of the
  16.                     Fog Index grade-level readability rating.
  17.  
  18.                     The accuracy of the various counts may be
  19.                     affected, though usually not significantly,
  20.                     by the presence of formatting and printing
  21.                     codes included in the file by non-ASCII word
  22.                     processors.  PARSE does ignore the "high-bit"
  23.                     codes produced by WordStar and similar
  24.                     programs, but "dot commands" and the like
  25.                     will be counted.
  26.  
  27.                     Notes:
  28.  
  29.                     1.   For further information on the Fog Index
  30.                          see Robert Gunning's The Technique of
  31.                          Clear Writing (McGraw-Hill, 1952, 1968).
  32.