buehring@ti-csl.CSNET (Walt Buehring) (01/02/87)
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,
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Walt Buehring
Texas Instruments - Computer Science Center
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