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From: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Possible \"spell\" bug + no fix
Message-ID: <508@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 19:20:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 11 19:20:20 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Mar-85 01:41:44 EST
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Reply-To: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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The core dumped by spell is from deroff, which tries to rip the troff
info from the input. It gets easily confused and dumps core every now
and then. The fix is to throw deroff away and maybe replace is by a
sed srcipt or have the troff commands stored in the wordlist as
allowed words.

	jaap, mcvax!jaap