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From: wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: spelling checkers (again)
Keywords: which one?
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Date: 18 Dec 90 14:55:01 GMT
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simtel20 has the following spelling checkers listed:

cspella.arc     lspella.arc     spellr20.arc
ezspell.arc     spell204.arc    tspell23.zip

Which one(s) should I ftp and use?  Would some experienced user care to take
a few minutes to comment about which checker has which features?

I am using elvis to edit text on dos and would prefer something similar to
Unix spell (batch checker which writes words to std out).

* * *

I have not registered my copy of thespl22.zip (Thesaurus Plus) because I
find some of the entries to be poor or outright wrong.  A TSR thesaurus is a
great idea, though!!  I am going to check the licensing conditions of our
microlytics thesaurus to see if I could legally use it on my dos box.  I
suspect I won't :-(.

-Mitch (wyle@inf.ethz.ch)