Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Public Domain Spelling Checkers Message-ID:Date: 13 Aug 88 19:39:52 GMT References: <5592@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Sender: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: na Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 18 In-reply-to: burgin@ecsvax.uncecs.edu's message of 13 Aug 88 13:24:16 GMT In article <5592@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> burgin@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Robert Burgin) writes: Does anyone know of a good public domain spelling checker? You may be interested in the Clarkson Speller Engine, which is a hashing speller. It looks up a word using five different hash keys. If all five hit, then the word is considered to be spelled correctly. Source is not available, and the only supplied user interface is Freemacs. Any program can be interfaced to the speller. The speller takes over an interrupt, and your program asks it if a word is spelled correctly. Speller is available from grape.ecs.clarkson.edu, /e/files/freemacs/emacspel.arc. This machine is also a Fido BBS, (315) 268-6667, 3/12/2400 baud, 8N1, 24 hours. Look in the Freemacs file area. -- nelson@clutx.bitnet, nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu, uunet!clutx.clarkson.edu!nelson