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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: ispell
Message-ID: <1730@desint.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 88 07:23:30 GMT
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Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Organization: Interrupt Technology Corp., Manhattan Beach, CA
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The current released version of ispell is 2.0.02.  If "ispell -v" prints
this out, you're current.  If "ispell -v" prints 2.0 or 2.0.01, you should
get and apply patches 1 and 2.  Patch 2 is in the comp.sources.misc archives;
patch 1 is available by writing me.  If ispell doesn't have a "-v" switch, or
if it prints an earlier version, you can get along without patches or updates
until my new posting (see below).

A working version of ispell is on uunet, in the gnu emacs archives.  I don't
know the pathname or the version, but since it comes with emacs, one can
presume that it works with that editor.

For people who do not have access to archives, I will send the ispell 2.0
sources, plus the two patches, upon request.  I will *not* send a dictionary
to anyone at present, but you can build one from /usr/dict/words.  However,
when you request ispell from me, please realize that the money to send it
comes from my own personal pocket, so I would appreciate it if you wouldn't
do it frivolously.

As a general rule, after a posting like this I collect requests for a while
and the respond to all at once;  this is cheaper for me.  So be
prepared to wait a week or two before it actually arrives.

Finally, an update on the much-promised new version of ispell:  it is looking
very healthy;  it has passed a limited alpha test.  I will post it just as
soon as I feel I can;  I hope this will be early this summer, but if I get
busy it may take as long as next fall.  This posting will be to
comp.sources.unix, so it will be archived, and it will include dictionaries
for English.  Watch comp.sources.unix for it.  I may post announcements
to other groups, but don't count on it.
-- 
	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff