Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:40:37 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: victor@vas.tomsk.su (Victor A. Sudakov) Cc: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I check spelling of a text? Message-ID: <199611291840.KAA21535@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <AArpidoaA0@vas.tomsk.su> from "Victor A. Sudakov" at "Nov 29, 96 06:45:57 pm"
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According to Victor A. Sudakov: > > > 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. > I believe that the `spell' program is Copyright AT&T. Moreover, it is simply a /bin/sh script. It uses the same dictionary and hash files as ispell, except that the original spell script is drastically less capable that ispell. gary kline >
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