DOS spell checker

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Author: Mr K.L. Roberts
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 00:00

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Can anyone recommend or even point me towards an ispell-like spell
checker for DOS?

I understand ispell itself is unsupported for DOS, if this sis a fib that
would be ideal.

And if any of these can be run under oemacs as well that would be even
better. (I don't hold out any hope about this as I think that would
involve multi-tasking, but someone out there may know a work around for
this. Other than installing Linux that is ;) ).


Thanks in advance


Kev


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Re: DOS spell checker

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Author: Deutscher
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 00:00

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Mr K.L. Roberts (kev@liverpool.ac.uk) wrote:

: Can anyone recommend or even point me towards an ispell-like spell
: checker for DOS? I understand ispell itself is unsupported for DOS, 
: if this sis a fib that would be ideal.

: And if any of these can be run under oemacs as well that would be even
: better. (I don't hold out any hope about this as I think that would
: involve multi-tasking, but someone out there may know a work around for
: this. Other than installing Linux that is ;) ).

Hm. I do. How about installing OS/2? (2.1 will do, 3.0 is nicer though.)
There are emacs and ispell (and most other unix stuff) available on the
standard os2-ftp sites, and they work well. OS/2 is not so far away from
DOS in some respects that it could be a problem to get used to, and it is
so very far ahead of DOS that it will be a problem causing withdrawal
symptoms to be without it ... :-) Linux is nice though, too.
If your restriction is less the UNIX threshold seen by some but more the
hardware you may be bound to DOG, as os/2 and linux run equally nicely on
about the same kind of machine.  Stefan
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