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In article <ANDY.93Jan22101021@elviss.eng.sun.com>
andy@elviss.eng.sun.com (Andrew Davidson) writes:

> 	For some unknown reason ispell stoped working for me in emacs.
> when I run any of the emacs ispell commands I get the following
> message in my mini buffer "writing to process: invalid argument ispel"

With one "l" or two?  It might be useful to use cut-and-paste to copy
the message accurately into a posting;  accurate error messages make
diagnosis easier.

> I notice that I also get the following message in the cmdtool I used
> to start emacs from "Fatal error (1)". ispell seems to work fine if I
> use it from a cmdtool or xterm

It sounds like you aren't successfully starting ispell.  Why, I can't
tell based on the information given.

> also I can not seem to get ispell to work from an emacs-shell? I get some message about "Screen too small:  need at least 10 lines"

This message could be improved to be more informative.  Emacs doesn't
support terminal emulation (cursor-control escape sequences) in shell
window, so ispell can't be run from an emacs shell (except in -a or -l
mode).

> I do not know what version of ispel.el i am using (it says something
> about ported to ispel version 3.0) Sorry but I also do not know the exact version of ispell I am using. (I do not have access to the source code)

You can get the version of ispell.el from the $Header or $Id line.
The version of ispell itself is given by "ispell -v".  If "ispell -v"
doesn't report 2.0.02 or 3.0.09, you should pick up patches to bring
yourself up to one of those levels.
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	Geoff Kuenning	geoff@maui.cs.ucla.edu	geoff@ITcorp.com