Re: Ideas for renaming non-GNU ispell

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From: Michael Meissner
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 02:14

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In article <1993Jun2.184117.12151@cs.ucla.edu> geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning) writes:

| With the release of GNU ispell 4.0, it has become clear to me that
| people are going to become confused about the two independent versions
| of that program unless one of them is renamed.  For historical reasons
| (i.e., my version is based on that by Pace Willisson), I feel that the
| GNU version should have the rights to the name "ispell."  This leaves
| me with the task of picking a new name.

I'm trying mightly not to recomend i18nspell.  Whoops, there goes the ^C^C.
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