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From: buehring@ti-csl.CSNET (Walt Buehring)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Ispell -- Interactive spelling checker
Message-ID: <11024@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: Fri, 2-Jan-87 12:45:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  2 12:45:22 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Jan-87 02:42:21 EST
Reply-To: buehring@tilde.UUCP (Walt Buehring)
Distribution: comp.sources.d
Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas
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I just started reading the *.sources.* newsgroups again and saw the
umpteenth posting of a weak spelling checker.  This set me to
wondering: has anyone ever posted the ispell program?  This works much
like the TOPS ispell program in that it looks up alternate spellings
of misspelled words and presents a list of possibilites for you to choose
from (or you can add the word to your private dictionary).  I hacked
up a GNU EMACS interface for it that also works much like the TOPS
EMACS checker (which I believe was ispell underneath).  The whole
setup just wins all day long and I can't believe anyone uses anything
else.

Some fellow from Rutgers _swore_ he was gonna post a souped up version
to the net Real Soon Now but that was over a year ago and I never saw
it.  I will wait a month if I don't hear that it has already been
posted, I'll send what I got (EMACS interface included).  

Please let me know if I should post.  For those with arpa, I think you
can find it on MIT-PREP under /usr/src/local/ispell.

(and no, I didn't run in over this article)

Thanks,
\/\/alt

Walt Buehring
Texas Instruments - Computer Science Center

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