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From: frank@zen.UUCP (Frank Wales)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: spell bug?????
Message-ID: <631@zen.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 13:50:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: zen.631
Posted: Fri Aug 14 13:50:56 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 01:40:49 EDT
References: <541@augusta.UUCP> <727@houxa.UUCP>
Reply-To: frank@zen.UUCP (Frank Wales)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
Lines: 29
Keywords: HP-UX spell
Summary: HP-UX smells funnie two

In article <727@houxa.UUCP> jph@houxa.UUCP (J.HARKINS) writes:
>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.  [...]
>Jack Harkins @ AT&T Bell Labs
>..!ihnp4!houxf!jph

Well, I just tried it here (HP-UX 5.15 on HP9000 series 500, SysV-derived),
and our spell didn't complain about any of them either.  Some further info
for anybody who's *really* interested:

        $ what /usr/bin/spell
        /usr/bin/spell:
                27.1   85/07/12
                spell.sh        27.1      85/05/20
        $ what /usr/lib/spell/spell*
        /usr/lib/spell/spellin:
                  26.1
        /usr/lib/spell/spellout:
                  26.1
        /usr/lib/spell/spellprog:
                  26.1

I'd be more interested in finding out how you discovered that spell
accepted such "words".

Orthographised Frank.       [frank@zen.uucp<->seismo!ukc!zen.co.uk!frank]