mark said:
>   One uses a container to hold and count words in up to 2 gigs of text!

if someone is willing to deliver to me
a compiled fb3 program that does what i specified,
i will make it available to my users as is.

i was gonna credit the list as the programmer anyway,
so i certainly wouldn't mind letting all the credit reside
in the one person who actually delivers a finished app...

you can even make it shareware, or
full-blown commercial if you desire...

if my users would rather pay for your speedier program
than use my slow freeware version, more power to you!

-bowerbird