On May 26, 2004, at 8:49 AM, Houghton,Andrew wrote:

> People must really like to write code!  What's wrong with
> using tools already available to you?
>
>   cat *.mrc | tr \035 \012 | wc -l
>
> Seems to work just peachy for me, without writing Java, Perl,
> Python, etc.  Maybe I missed something along the way...

Andrew, you're just putting into practice the "Unix Way."  :-)

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Eric Morgan