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From: jewett@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Bob Jewett)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Problem with spell
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Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 19:42:26 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  8 19:42:26 1987
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> There is really no solution, short of a total (and perhaps needed) rewrite
> of spell

    I rather like ispell, which was recently posted to the net.  It takes 2
    to 5 seconds to start up, and the searches for suggested spellings of
    misspelled words can take several seconds on long words, but I find it
    much easier to use than Bell's current offering.

    Its hashed list is about 400k.  It came with a (short) ascii dictionary.

    Bob Jewett