1 03/11/76   length, len
 2 
 3 Function:  The length command prints the number of words in the current
 4 file.  One word is equal to four characters (including punctuation,
 5 spacing, and newline characters).  If the total number of characters is
 6 not a multiple of four, the last word will contain fewer than four
 7 characters.  The smallest unit of storage on Multics is a record.  A
 8 record consists of 1024 words.  In the example shown, the user has used
 9 one record even though only 12 words were required by the file.
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11 
12 Syntax:  length
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14 
15 Example:
16 
17 !    100 How many
18 !    110 words are
19 !    120 in this file?
20 !    length
21      "no name" length = 12 words (1 record)
22      ready  0707