nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (08/14/88)
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.
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nelson@clutx.bitnet, nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu, uunet!clutx.clarkson.edu!nelsonzifrony@TAURUS.BITNET (08/16/88)
I know of one public domain speller for a PC, which I use. That one is
micro spell. It is linked with micro emacs in such a way that allows you
to skim with emacs the checked file, and correct all misspelled words.
However, it does not give any suggestions for corrections.
Of course, there are spellers not on the public domain which suggest
corrections, but these cost money.
I got these two from our local public domain pool, but I suppose they should be
at SIMTEL20 too.
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