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From: jph@houxa.UUCP (J.HARKINS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: spell bug?????
Message-ID: <727@houxa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 16:18:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: houxa.727
Posted: Mon Aug 10 16:18:38 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Aug-87 06:23:00 EDT
References: <541@augusta.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
Lines: 16
Keywords: is this in every system?
Summary: local dictionary?

In article <541@augusta.UUCP>, bs@augusta.UUCP (Burch Seymour) writes:
> 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?

Works OK on my system.  Did some joker define a local dictionary and stick these in?
A shell script could be replacing the real spell executable, and running the
real one with a local dictionaty.  Just a possibility.
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