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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: spell bug?????
Message-ID: <4177@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 11:01:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.4177
Posted: Sat Aug 15 11:01:47 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 13:39:47 EDT
References: <541@augusta.UUCP> <727@houxa.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <727@houxa.UUCP> by jph@houxa.UUCP (J.HARKINS):
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| 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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Nope -- we're running System III, I checked all the spell stuff and it's in
order... but it thinks those "words" above are spelled correctly.  So at least
*some* versions of "spell" are confused.