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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:58:04 -0700
From: Stephen Fisher <sfisher@SDF.ORG>
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Subject: Why was ispell removed?
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I recently noticed that the ispell port has been removed in favor of the 
aspell-ispell port ("ispell compatibility script for aspell").  Does 
anyone know why it was removed?  All I see on Fresh Ports is that it 
was deprecated and finally removed in January of this year.  

(The ispell script for aspell doesn't fully replicate ispell 
functionality such as checking words on the command line as shown below)

Real ispell:
>ispell
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.3.02 12 Jun 2005
word: word
ok


word: ^D



aspell script:
>ispell
Ispell compatibility script for Aspell.
Usage: /usr/local/bin/ispell [options] -a|-l|-v[v]|-c|-e[1-4]|<file>