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From: vlr@litwin.com (Vic Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: spell and /usr/dict/words.
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.002759.4012@litwin.com>
Date: 29 Aug 90 00:27:59 GMT
References: <7385@star.cs.vu.nl> <517@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <13668@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Litwin Process Automation, Houston
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gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>In article <517@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> mayne@VSSERV.SCRI.FSU.EDU (William (Bill) Mayne) writes:
>>... For relatively long strings there are many hash collisions which
>>cause nonwords to be accepted.

>Yes, and if there are too many arcane-but-correct spellings in the word
>list that "spell" uses, many misspellings will not be detected because
>the misspelling matches some arcane, unintended word.  When it comes to
>"spell", bigger is definitely not better.

I just tried this on my system : SCO Opendesktop (SYSV R3.2.1). No 
misspellings were flagged.
-- 
Dr. Victor L. Rice
Litwin Process Automation