From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 10 19:49:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A8AA465E for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA3B4D for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 04:49:07 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 1930; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:52:56 +1100 Message-ID: <38A386DB.76252C95@S1.com> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:49:47 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aunty Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AU/UK/NZ spelling dictionary? References: <20000211143146.A6488@comcen.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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