Pooltype shows the so-called string number of each string in a WEB pool file (see section WEB: Literate programming), as output by Tangle (see section Tangle: Translate WEB to Pascal), including the first 256 strings corresponding to the possible input characters. Pooltype primarily serves as an example of WEB conventions to implementors of the TeX system. Synopsis:
pooltype [option]... poolfile[.pool]
No path searching is done for poolfile. Output is to standard output.
The only options are `--help' and `--version' (see section Common options).
As an example of the output, here is the (edited) output for `tex.pool':
0: "^^@" 1: "^^A" ... 255: "^^ff" 256: "pool size" ... 1314: "Using character substitution: " (23617 characters in all.)
In Metafont and MetaPost, the first 256 characters are actually represented as single bytes (i.e., themselves), not in the `^^' notation. Consider Pooltype as showing the results after conversion for output.
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