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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

939.0. "Fog Factor" by DECWET::GETSINGER (Eric Getsinger) Thu Jan 09 1992 16:06

    Don't you hate it when someone posts a note looking for another note? 
    I know I do.  So I'm truly going to hate myself when I press F10...
    
    I'm looking for software that estimates the "fog" factor.  It has
    something to do with 'fleisch' or some such collection of letters that
    comprise a name. I've searched on 'fog,' 'test,' and 'fle' in a variety
    of notes files, but to no avail.  Can someone point me in the right
    direction?
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939.1Flesch?RDVAX::KALIKOWUnintelligibletsThu Jan 09 1992 18:571
        ... that's all I can pull out of the squishy archives...
939.2were you saw it?PAOIS::HILLAnother migrant worker!Fri Jan 10 1992 02:2210
       Try the MEIS::HACKERS conference, Note 974.0 and 974.1 for the 
       answer.
    
       The person who helped me was Barry Dysert, who at that time (Apr 
       1990) was on DYO780::DYSERT.
    
       he has a program called FLESCH.EXE which does all sorts of analysis 
       on .TXT files, incuding the word count and Fog index.
    
    Nick
939.3GunningMARVIN::KNOWLESCaveat vendorFri Jan 10 1992 06:198
    Sorry, I know the note you mean, but I've no idea where it it.
    
    FLESCH.EXE takes the Fog Index into account, and maybe Flesch
    institutionalized the Index (I doubt it; that note probably says).
    But the notion of Fog in writing was introduced, I believe, by Robert
    Gunning.
    
    b
939.4DYPSS1::DISK$USER01:[DYSERT.PUBLIC]FLESCH.EXEDYPSS1::DYSERTBarry - Custom Software DevelopmentFri Jan 10 1992 07:4616
    Re: Note 939.2 by PAOIS::HILL
    
�       The person who helped me was Barry Dysert, who at that time (Apr 
�       1990) was on DYO780::DYSERT.
    
�       he has a program called FLESCH.EXE which does all sorts of analysis 
�       on .TXT files, incuding the word count and Fog index.
    
    That would be me (except I'm now on DYPSS1::). Feel free to copy:
    
    	DYPSS1::DISK$USER01:[DYSERT.PUBLIC]FLESCH.EXE
    
    I don't know where I got it - I certainly didn't write it - but it may
    be what you're looking for.
    
    	BD�
939.5also try 588 in JOYOFLEXSHALOT::ANDERSONWork at LoveFri Jan 10 1992 08:330