Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!root From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Computer Center) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Extra dictionaries for spell? Summary: an easy alias (or script) to do it Keywords: Specialized word list -- how to do it? Message-ID: <1275@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Date: 3 Jun 88 01:16:27 GMT References: <275@ucrmath.UUCP> Organization: Computer Center, UCSF Lines: 19 In article <275@ucrmath.UUCP>, jantypas@hope.UUCP (John Antypas) writes: > Does anyone know how to tell spell that I have a dictionary of specialized > words in addition to the main list? > Here is a little script (for csh users can be an alias) to do it for those who don't want to deal with spellin/spellout: spell $* | sort | comm -23 - mydict where mydict is a simple sorted wordlist. The "spell" history capability can help to build it. Thos Sumner (thos@cca.ucsf.edu) BITNET: thos@ucsfcca (The I.G.) (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos) OS|2 -- an Operating System for puppets. #include