Spell Check

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

> 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.

Is there a symlink to aspeell for ispell. If so, it might be backward
compatible and work okay... I'd like to check for you, but can't from
where I am.

Karl

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