Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!bmc1!kuling!irf
From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What does "spell" do wrong?
Message-ID: <1007@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 12:37:08 GMT
References: <7084@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <7084@saturn.ucsc.edu> jaap@chromo.UUCP (Jacob Wilbrink) writes:
>I've been wondering what the program "spell" does, since it
>seems to make very many errors. Some examples of words it thinks
>are spelled correctly are
>
>utomsrr
>mgdesou
>aneorxx

All these words are caught as misspelled by the HP-UX version of spell(1).


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