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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: spell..adding new words
Keywords: spell spellin hashcheck RTFM
Message-ID: <11615@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Nov 89 00:03:25 GMT
References: <1628@novavax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1628@novavax.UUCP> rwright@novavax.UUCP (Ronald K. Wright) writes:
>Perhaps excesses as a youth dithered my brain; but all of TFM's that I
>have read do not explain how to add words to spell's idea of correct
>words.

System V flavors of "spell" support local word lists; RTFM again.
For older flavors, you may have to add the words to the "local"
file found in the source directory for the "spell" utility and
perform a "make install" (which will run "spellin" and copy the
resulting hash list file to the needed place).

>Spell even in its most primative form would be helpful to me if I
>could get it to expand its vocabulary.  

What do monkeys have to do with this?

>Perhaps someone could explain it to me, try to use simplistic terms.  ;-)

Basically, either use System V "spell" or give your word list to
your system administrator and ask that he add them to the supported
word list for "spell".