Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site asgb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!hplabs!hao!asgb!devine From: devine@asgb.UUCP (Robert J. Devine) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: literacy Message-ID: <816@asgb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 19:36:38 EST Article-I.D.: asgb.816 Posted: Mon Nov 11 19:36:38 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 00:23:44 EST References: <747@cyb-eng.UUCP> <9700105@uiucdcs> <281@ihu1n.UUCP> <658@ecsvax.UUCP> <14@cstvax.UUCP> <912@rlvd.UUCP> Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, Boulder Colo. Lines: 17 > In article <912@rlvd.UUCP> mike@rlvd.UUCP (Mike Woods) writes: > > I've been working on a spell correction program for somewhile (in my > spare time). To generate a dictionary I took the contents of our > news spool directory, tokenised it and did a sort -u. I then passed > it through spell(1) to remove the garbage. When I came to look at > what spell had accepted I decided never to use spell again! Three years ago I wrote a spell(1)-like program for a VMS machine. To generate a dictionary, I grabbed the UNIX dictionary off of a campus machine. It may have just been that the system administrator had loaded it with various words without checking their spelling. Regardless of their origin, many misspelled words were present. So, be wary! Don't take "spell" as the final authority. Bob