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Re: About this ispell thing.. (sigh!..)

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From: Kevin Dalley
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:45
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>>>>> On 17 Nov 92 23:34:08 GMT, vlee@vis.toronto.edu (Victor Yuencheng Lee) said:

Victor> Does any emacs genius on the net know how we could release the memory
Victor> ispell occupied after the spell checking is done? I mean, "terminate"
Victor> ispell by giving a comand in emacs.

Victor> Our system manager always ask me to kill my "sleeping ispell". :(
Victor> It's like a pain on the neck to use "kill -9 ????" every time...

Victor> Thanks for your time.

You could always use

(kill-process "ispell")

It does kill the process.

--
Kevin Dalley
Toshiba America MRI, Inc.
kevin@tamri.com
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Subject: Re: About this ispell thing.. (sigh!..)
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Date: 19 Nov 92 00:45:34 GMT
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