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Date:      Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:22:40 +0100 (MET)
From:      Oystein Soreide <oystein@frosk.zoo.uib.no>
To:        "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How can I check spelling of a text?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961127101626.28689A-100000@frosk.zoo.uib.no>
In-Reply-To: <AA46mcoiS0@vas.tomsk.su>

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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Victor A. Sudakov wrote:

> Hello
> 
> When I installed my FreeBSD 2.1.0 from CD, I also installed the
> dictionary files. Now they are in /usr/share/dict. However, I
> cannot understand how I can make use of them. I just cannot
> find a command to run to check spelling of a text.
> 
> I know about the ispell utility from the ports collection, but
> it seems to be using its own dictionary files.

ispell suppose to work with any language, you must just specify which 
dictionary you want to use. See the ispell(1) manual.

Øystein
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