From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu Jan 25 06:55:52 1996
Return-Path: owner-questions
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA24996
          for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 06:55:52 -0800 (PST)
Received: from alpha.dsu.edu (ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu [138.247.32.12])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA24991
          for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 06:55:50 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from ghelmer@localhost) by alpha.dsu.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA28514; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 08:55:44 -0600 (CST)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 08:55:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu>
To: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: unix spell
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960125084315.20857A-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960125085341.11996B-100000@alpha.dsu.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
Precedence: bulk

On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Stephen Hovey wrote:

> Is there a 'spell' on freebsd?
>  
> I cant find it and ispell wont do the trick - I need it for pine.

I've installed ispell and did a 

setenv SPELL "/usr/local/bin/ispell -l"

in the login scripts for the Pine users who need to spell check their mail
-- it seems to work OK.  I could have just as well created a shell script
named /usr/local/bin/spell with the same command in it. 

Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu