From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 17:21:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA21656 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:21:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (sdev.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA21650 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:21:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.2/8.6.9) id MAA10023; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:19:51 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:19:51 +1100 From: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: victor@vas.tomsk.su (Victor A. Sudakov) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I check spelling of a text? References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Victor A. Sudakov on Nov 28, 1996 20:42:53 +0700 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Victor A. Sudakov writes: > However, in a book about UNIX I read that there are very simple > spell checkers that are not interactive, but just read text and > make a list of words that were not found. I would prefer such. > Do you know where I could take one? ispell will do that (to be UNIX "spell" compatible) if you feed it the right switch (-l). Misspelt words will be sent to stdout. David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn