Getting word list from spell(1)

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From: Mike Williams
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 22:03

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  Is there any way of getting a list of words from spell(1), to generate
  something like /usr/dict/words. 

  I don't want to have to generate all possible sequences of characters,
  and exclude the ones which pass spellcheck.  There must be a better way.

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