On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:40:49 -0500, Shane Ginnane wrote:

>According to wc, miklos' last answer was comprised of 125 (new)lines - being 
>737 words (and 5010 bytes). That analysis can be considered approximate, but 
>close.
>All for a 4 word answer - 5 if you include the introductory "Hi".
>
>Extravagant maybe ?.
>  
Yes.  Actually, looking at the raw data in my mbox, I get:

:w ! wc
     210    1029    8566

But that's just as an email message.  A similar count of the web
page on IBM-MAIN gives:

:w ! wc
     995    3130   45820

Parkinson's Law.  Small wonder Shmuel with his dialup connection
uses POP3 and reads offline.

-- gil

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