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From: eap@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: spell
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Date: 15 Mar 89 01:26:46 GMT
References: <8903132006.AA13089@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <8903132006.AA13089@en.ecn.purdue.edu> kimw@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Whoi Y Kim) says:
>
>Can anybody tell me how to incorporate your own dictionary for "spell"?
>Often when you have people's names or some gargons appeared in your paper,
>the spelling routine picks up every word. (the "spell" even picks up
>"emacs" -- what a surprise!). So I need to have my own file which
>contains those jargons so that "spell-buffer(word)" can use the file as well
>as its own dictionary.
>By the way, the emacs that we are using is gnu.emacs.18.52.
>
>Thanks in advance....

  Yeah, bag "spell" and use "ispell".  This note is from prep.ai.mit.edu:
  
  Sources are from celray.cs.yale.edu as of 18 May 1988.
  Root is /u/public/ispell/ and contains the following:
    dict.shar.Z    137,622
    ispell.shar.Z  108,435
    ispell.el       22,712

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