From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 29 04:09:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA15044 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 04:09:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.185.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA14989 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 04:07:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id TAA15269; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 19:04:01 +0700 Received: (from victor@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00177; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:45:57 +0700 To: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Message-ID: Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Date: Fri, 29 Nov 96 18:45:57 +0700 X-Mailer: BML [UNIX Beauty Mail v.1.39] Subject: Re: How can I check spelling of a text? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 Does anybody know if "spell" has ever been ported to FreeBSD, and if so, where can I obtain it? I would be happy to get the sources, of course, but a binary will also do. Perhaps there is a kind soul that would e-mail it to me? Thanks a lot. --- Victor A. Sudakov E-mail: victor@vas.tomsk.su Center of Information Technologies FidoNet: 2:5005/49 Tomsk Region Education Department Telephone: +7 3822 224916 Tomsk, Russian Federation Telefax: +7 3822 225912