The String::BitCount module for perl5 may be used to determine the number of one bits in strings and to show the number of bits in each byte of a string. To install this module, cd to the directory that this README file is in and type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install The 'make test' line is optional. Documentation for this module is part of the file BitCount.pm using the pod (Plain Old Documentation) format. To convert it into manual page format, type something like the following: pod2man BitCount.pm > BitCount.man To convert it into html format, type: pod2html BitCount.pm (pod2html automatically creates a file named BitCount.html) Copyright (c) 1995, 1996 Winfried Koenig. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. -- Winfried Koenig, Arendsstrasse 12, D-63075 Offenbach Phone: +49 69 868707, Mail: