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From: bs@augusta.UUCP (Burch Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: spell bug?????
Message-ID: <541@augusta.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 10:07:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: augusta.541
Posted: Fri Aug  7 10:07:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 06:33:40 EDT
Organization: Gould CSD, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Keywords: is this in every system?

If this is an old item, someone let me know by e-mail. There's too much
traffic on this group to follow all of it. Otherwise, we discovered, quite
by accident, that there are patterns of letters which spell accepts
as real words even though they are nonsense. I've tried these on two
manufacturer's Unix systems and gotten the same result, so I don't think
it's a local bug (Sun and Gould are the two if anyone is curious).
Three of the words which are passed through by spell are:

 vfppvdu, plbpvhb, and nbclowd

Is this a known problem? Do these words pass on all unix systems?
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