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Subject: Unix Dictionaries
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Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 17:42:52 EST
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In-Reply-To: Bob Devine's message of 27 Jan 87 20:12:03 GMT
 
This may or may not help - but Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearl's" Book
(Chapter 13) has a 3 page description of how one Doug McIlroy developed
a spell program in 1978 for an unidentified UNIX system.
 
Other possible sources -
McIlroy "Development of a spelling checker" IEEE Transactions on Communications,
vol COM-30, No 1, Jan 1982, pp91-99.
 
Peterson "Comp prog. for detecting and corecting spelling errors" CACM Dec 1980
 
 
 
   Dick Botting, Dept Comp Sci., Cal State U, San Bernardino, CA 92407
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