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From: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Summary -- Spell Checkers
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Date: 5 Mar 90 18:23:22 GMT
References: <1148daiyingshi@yvax.byu.edu> <4803@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts)
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In article <4803@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
(dhosek) writes:
>In article <1148daiyingshi@yvax.byu.edu> daiyingshi@yvax.byu.edu writes:
>>        Also , can I use any of these checkers in VAX/VMS ?
>
>Probably not. There is a PD VMS spell checker that does a reasonable 
>job of ignoring TeX commands (it sometimes ignores text as well) 
>available from ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.public.spell]. I forget
>the original source.

There is a PD VMS spell checker that came on the Fall 89 VAX/LT DECUS
tape.  I don't know if it is the same as the above or not, but it does
ignore TeX, runoff and scribe commands, based on file extension.
Contact you local DECUS librarian.

roland
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