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2 total messages Started by Chuck L. Peterson Thu, 06 Dec 1990 22:38
Is there a *good* UNIX spell checker?
#348
Author: Chuck L. Peterson
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 22:38
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program for Unix?

Thanks, David

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David Mostardi			      "Where the coffee is strong,
MSRI, Berkeley                            the cat is good-looking,
david@msri.org       	   and all the theorems are above-average."
Re: Is there a *good* UNIX spell checker?
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Author: Stephen Riehm [Romulis]
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 00:31
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clp@megadon.UUCP (Chuck L. Peterson) writes:
> [is there a spelling] program for Unix?
ispell seems to do the job nicely.. failing this spell is also not too
bad.. and even gives you the option of american <standard> or british
<-b option>

for vi users.. the following macro works nicekly with ispell.. not so well
with spell tho.

:map _S :w!^m:!ispell %^M:e!^M^M

have fun

Steve [aka Romulis]
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