Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 12:49:52 -0400 From: "Nathan Thompson" Subject: spell To: "ppt" Delivery-Date: Sun Jun 13 10:52:58 1999 I'm releasing a version of spell much like the UNIX version. You can pick it up at http://www.city-net.com/~quimby/ . Here's the READ.ME: spell: a mostly traditional implementation of the UNIX spelling checker. Copyright 1999 Nathan Scott Thompson ( quimby at city-net dot com ) You may use this according to the GNU Public License: see http://www.gnu.org VERSION: This is the first beta release. Consider especially the word lists and the stop list likely to change. FILES: depod - pod filter deroff - troff filter spell - spelling checker spellin - add words to hashed word list spellout - compare words to hashed word list Spelling.pm - support module english - base word list, stemmed american - American word list, stemmed british - British word list, stemmed stoplist - stop list build.bat - script to build the hashed word lists The word lists derive from those provided with Ispell 3.1 by Geoff Kuenning (see http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html). I deleted some apparent errors and reduced the lists by stemming. Nothing has been done to prevent overstemming (reduction to a valid but unrelated stem word.) INSTALLATION: The file build.bat is provided to build the hashed word files. It's a DOS batch file but works fine as a UNIX shell script. The resulting files are named hlista, hlistb and hstop. spell expects these files to be in /usr/dict; alternatively you can supply another path in the SPELLDIR environment variable.