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From: buehring@ti-csl.CSNET (Walt Buehring)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Ispell:  Interactive spelling checker
Message-ID: <11617@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: 12 Jan 87 12:29:27 GMT
Reply-To: buehring@tilde.UUCP (Walt Buehring)
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Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas
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Posted: Mon Jan 12 06:29:27 1987

Ispell is a screen oriented spelling checker that offers possible
corrections for each misspelled word encountered.  Also included is a
GNU EMACS interface.  It is not perfect but it provides the best user
interface of any UNIX speller I have seen (those of you familiar with
TOPS20 spellers will feel right at home).

The dictionary format is incompatible with /usr/dict/words.  It allows
one to specify the legal suffixes for each word and thus requires less
guesswork on the part of the speller.  The dictionary provided (in a
separate posting) has ~15K words, not including suffixes.  This seems
a bit small but has rarely presented a problem in actual use, perhaps
due to clever use of suffix flags.

I did not write this program (but did check with the author about
posting it) and do not plan to maintain/fix/enhance it.  I do not know
which systems it runs on besides Berkeley 4.2 (actually Ultrix).  I
will attempt to post dictionary diffs periodically -- see the README
file for more info.

This is my first source posting... hope I get it right.

Walt Buehring
Texas Instruments - Computer Science Center

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