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From: andy@rbdc.UUCP (Andy Pitts)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.misc,misc.wanted,unix-pc.general,unix-pc.sources,comp.unix.questions,comp.editors
Subject: Re: )))))  WANTED : visual spell checker (((((
Summary: Minor bug in inspell.c
Message-ID: <585@rbdc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 19:22:08 GMT
References: <583@rbdc.UUCP> <964@naucse.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@rbdc.UUCP (Andy Pitts)
Organization: Red Barn Data Center, Winston-Salem, NC.
Lines: 36

>: In article <449@mrsvr.UUCP> ssa@mrsvr.UUCP (6607) writes:
>Has anyone noticed vspell missing words that spell catches (happens on my
>3b1 unixpc).  I haven't looked into it yet, but it effectively ruled out using
>vspell to help my son (who is spelling dyslexic). 

There is a minor bug in inspell.c that causes vspell to ignore the first line
in a file.  You can work around this by always leaving the first line blank,
or you can install the patch I am inclosing to inspell.c and re compiling.

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*** inspell.c.old	Thu Oct 13 14:45:27 1988
--- inspell.c	Thu Oct 13 14:45:34 1988
***************
*** 61,67
  char **argv;
  {
          register int i,j,ret,which;
!         int lineno=1,fixret=1;
          int num_o_lines,intr();
          char c;
          

--- 61,67 -----
  char **argv;
  {
          register int i,j,ret,which;
!         int lineno=0,fixret=1;
          int num_o_lines,intr();
          char c;
          
-- 
Andy Pitts andy@rbdc.UUCP  : "The giant Gorf was hit in  one eye  by a stone,
bakerst!rbdc!andy          : and that eye  turned  inward  so  that it looked
kd4nc!gladys!rbdc!andy     : into his mind and he died of what he saw there."
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