root@grumbly.UUCP (rb duc) (06/05/90)
Does anyone know the file format of the unhashed, raw word-list used to make the spelling database (/usr/lib/spell/hlista in SCO Unix). Specifically, what notations are used to indicate variations on a base word? i.e. s, es, ed, ing, tion ... . Or is it done by the spell program and no special notation is needed in the word-list? I was checking out the GNU dict file. It uses a notation. There wasn't any documentation with dict.shar.Z. Does anyone know anything about it? I got my spell program with Open Desktop - so I don't have TFM. Is it documented better in SCO's Text Processing System? Please email any replys - I don't get this group anymore. Thanks for any help. Richard Ducoty \\\ - - Richard Ducoty ..uunet!grumbly!root ] Capitola, California root@grumbly.com ^
lauther@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Ulrich Lauther) (06/06/90)
In article <91@grumbly.UUCP> root@grumbly.com writes: > > Does anyone know the file format of the unhashed, raw word-list used >to make the spelling database (/usr/lib/spell/hlista in SCO Unix). >Specifically, what notations are used to indicate variations on a base word? >i.e. s, es, ed, ing, tion ... . Or is it done by the spell program and no >special notation is needed in the word-list? > [stuff deleted] Me too would like to know, since TFM is rather terse, not to say cryptic. E.g. there seems to be a +local_words option that I have seen being used and that seems to work (to some extent) but that is not mentioned in any man-page I have been able to access. Specifically I would like to know: 1. Why refuses spell to learn some words (either using +local_words, or using spellin). E.g.: "rerouting". 2. Why spell accepts some words as correct, though I see no way how they could (mistakenly) be derived from correct words. E.g.: "neeeds", "miist". (This holds for a SCO=Xenix distribution where I am absolutely sure, that nobody has tempered with /usr/lib/spell/hlist[ab], *after* installation, that is). 3. Is there a way to see all the words currently in /usr/lib/spell/hlist[ab]? Is that file in any way related to /usr/lib/spell/words? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ulrich Lauther Internet: lauther@janus.berkeley.edu Siemens / UCB ph: +1 415 642 3338 fax: 642 2739 +1 415 658 8529 home