Spell Check

[Rick Stevens]

brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> 
>>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I upgraded my version of Pine to 4.62 and now my spell check
>>>>>doesn't work.  I get a message that says "/usr/bin/spell" (or
>>>>>aspell when I change it to that).  Any help out there?
>>>>
>>>>That's all it says?  What a useful error message!  :-/  Did you verify
>>>>that you have spell or aspell installed (btw, spell is a shell script
>>>>that runs aspell with certain options and sorts the output).
>>>
>>>
>>>Sorry about that it says
>>>
>>>	Spell-Checking file "/usr/bin/spell" not found
>>>
>>>The I was wrong about when I put the speller in as
>>>"/usr/bin/aspell"  It says
>>>
>>>Alternate speller terminated abnormally (1)
>>>
>>>I did some checking and "/usr/bin/spell" is not on my computer
>>>
>>>Also, in Pine if you leave the alternate speller line blank it
>>>calls the "/usr/bin/spell" program.
>>
>>/usr/bin/spell is a shell script that wrappers aspell, since aspell
>>works just a bit differently.  The content of /usr/bin/spell is:
>>
>>	#!/bin/sh
>>	# aspell -l mimicks the standard unix spell program, roughly.
>>	cat "$@" | aspell -l --mode=none | sort -u
> 
> Rick,
> 
> That worked great - well kind of.  Spell now works but before it
> would bring up a listing of possible correct spellings and you
> would pick from the list.  Now it just says that it's spelled
> wrong and you enter the correct spelling - which would be great
> if I knew how to spell..

Oh, great.  Well, that's what spell is on FC3 and FC4.  I guess
a search of man pages or google is in order.
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