Path: utzoo!censor!geac!tse!rick
From: rick@tse.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: spell..adding new words
Keywords: spell spellin hashcheck RTFM
Message-ID: <1989Nov17.142726.467@tse.uucp>
Date: 17 Nov 89 14:27:26 GMT
References: <1628@novavax.UUCP> <11615@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Toronto Stock Exchange
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In article <11615@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>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".


... or what you might want to do is come up with an alias something like
(off the cuff but should work):

	alias spell	"spell \!* | fgrep -v -f mywordlist"

where the file mywordlist is a list of words (one per line) that you don't
want spell to match
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