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From: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
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Subject: Re: Command-line spelling correction
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Date: 15 Jan 90 15:03:21 GMT
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In article <21791@mimsy.umd.edu> hobbs@tove.umd.edu (James David Hobbs) writes:
>I am pursuing effective command-line spelling correction for Unix.
>Such a system would ideally increase user-efficiency for two major 
>reasons.  The users would not be spending time and becoming frustrated 
>correcting trivial slips.  Also, they could preserve their 
>train of thought on the task at hand instead of the computer details.

     Win Strickland did his master's thesis on this topic at Georgia Tech
around 1982 or so.  He produced a "backstop" which provided command name
spelling correction based upon patterns of typographic errors committed on
qwerty keyboards.  I liked this tool a lot, and always used it.  You could
configure it to prompt you with a correction, or to automatically correct,
or whatever.  

     You might want to get a copy of his thesis from Ga Tech.

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