Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:49:47 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> To: aunty <aunty@comcen.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AU/UK/NZ spelling dictionary? Message-ID: <38A386DB.76252C95@S1.com> References: <20000211143146.A6488@comcen.com.au>
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Hi Sue, > > Is there some way to get a non-USA dictionary, preferably Australian > English or similar, for users to use with a commandline spelling > checker such as ispell? > > ISTR reading that the USA-English one we have is the only one without > copyright hassles. I'd rather pay for a dictionary than present wrongly > spelled words as checked correct and vice versa. > > Can anyone suggest what my options might be? > Check out ispell(1) (buildhash option) and ispell(4), and also /usr/share/dict/README and finally ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/aussie . That should get you out of mischief ;') haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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