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.c;submitted by:
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.c;Tom Wolfe
.c;Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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.c;4800 Oak Grove Drive
.c;Pasadena, CA  90019
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.c;Office     (818) 354-6983
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.c;A Simple Spelling Checker for EVE.

An extended eve and standalone spelling checker are available.

Three dictionaries are used to test the spelling of words.  A common
dictionary (standard english words), a project dictionary (acronyms, etc).
and a user defined dictionary.  
The user defined dictionary can be created/updated
while in an EVE edit session.
Utilities are provided to build
all three dictionaries from text files containing one word per line.
The source word file for the common dictionary must be in
ascending (lexical)
sort order.  The project and user source word files do not.

The EVE spelling checker also has special commands that understands
a little about C, DCL, FORTRAN,
DCL and MACRO source code files and only checks appropriate things.
For example, The "SPELL FORTRAN" command checks only comments
and character constants.  The special command are currently very primitive. 

A separate (standalone) spelling checker patterned
after the LBL software tools
SPELL utility is also available.

The common dictionary currently contains 91,000+ words.

The project dictionary can contain 1,000 word (or 10,000 bytes).

The user dictionary can contain 200 words (or 2,000 bytes).

The maximum word size is currently 31 bytes.                     

Documentation can be found in the file SPELL.MEM.

Developed on VMS 4.2, TPU Version V1 Update 0.

The following items are submitted:
.list
.le;[SPELL]
This directory contains the save set SPELL.BCK and the RUNOFF files
AAAREADME.RNO, AAAREADME.MEM, SPELL.RNO and SPELL.MEM.
The spelling checker files are in
the save set SPELL.BCK because of the large VMS 4.2 file names.
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