FOGINDEX.COM - written in PLI by Les Bell, 11/04/82 - compiled by George Blat, 6/17/84 Calculates the 'Fog Index' developed by the Gunning-Mueller Clear Writing Institute. The fog index is roughly equal to the number of years of (US) schooling required to read a piece of writing. The fog index is the average sentence length plus the percentage of words having three or more syllables, all multiplied by 0.4. To run, type FOGINDEX . FOGINDEX.COM is confused by some word processor files, such as Spellbinder text files, which use unconventional carriage returns. In such cases, create a CPM version of your Spell- binder file with the following command sequence from the Spellbinder command line: COMMAND:GD (to save your file) WRITE FILENAME>YOURFILE.EXT COMMAND:G (to recall your file) READ FILENAME>YOURFILE.EXT COMMAND:GD (to create CP/M file) WRITE FILENAME>FOGTEST.TXT/1/2 (NOTICE "/1/2") Then return to the operating system and give the command: A>FOGINDEX FOGTEST.TXT Or from Spellbinder give the command: COMMAND:C/FOGINDEX FOGTEST.TXT FOGINDEX.COM will respond with a report something like this, which is FOGINDEX's analysis of FOGINDEX.DOC: Fog Index Calculator, Rev 1.2 Number of sentences = 17 Number of lines = 58 Number of words = 205 Number of characters = 1481 Fog Index = 5.21 End of Execution