tim@lucretia.esa.oz (Tim Bunce) (10/07/88)
I have been using the recently posted spelling filters with much success (Thanks). However there is a very real need to cater for personal words. I tried the following scheme but ran into a spot of what I think was Apollo brain-damage (I quite like them really :-) The shell script can be modified to append the misspelled words into a 'history' file, say ~/.spellerrors. From time to time this file could be sort | uniq'd and then vi'd to prune it down such that it only contained words that should be added to 'your' dictionary. Then, cat ~/.spellerrors | spellin /usr/dict/histb > ~/.spelldict could be used to merge them into a personal dictionary which the spell script could then use. Bingo! This last bit was where things tripped up. I could not get spell to use the new dictionary. (This would be trivial under sys5 using the +wordfile option, but I'm using bsd4.2 :-< ) I'm posting to .wanted because I feel it would not be productive to try to fix my Apollo shell source over the net. The underlying concept is fairly trivial. I'm sure that someone has done it or could do it in an afternoon and post it for the benefit of all. -- Tim. ..!munnari!tim@attila.esa.oz