diff --git a/charhist/GNUmakefile b/charhist/GNUmakefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..574c244
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charhist/GNUmakefile
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+include GNUmakevars
+include GNUmakerules
+
+all: charhist
+
+chartab:
+clean:
+	rm -f charhist core foo bar baz
+
+install: $(BINDIR)/charhist
diff --git a/charhist/charhist.c b/charhist/charhist.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0017be8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charhist/charhist.c
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#include <ctype.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+
+long hist[UCHAR_MAX+1];
+
+int main (int argc, char **argv) {
+    int c;
+
+    while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
+	hist[c]++;
+    }
+    for (c = 0; c <= UCHAR_MAX; c++) {
+	if (hist[c]) {
+	    printf ("%x %d %o %c\t%ld\n", c, c, c, isprint(c) ? c : '.', hist[c]);
+	}
+    }
+    return 0;
+}