Spell Check

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:

> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >
> >
> > > brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > >
> > > > I upgraded my version of Pine to 4.62 and now my spell check
> > > > doesn't work.  I get a message that says "/usr/bin/spell" (or
> > > > aspell when I change it to that).  Any help out there?
> > >
> > > That's all it says?  What a useful error message!  :-/  Did you verify
> > > that you have spell or aspell installed (btw, spell is a shell script
> > > that runs aspell with certain options and sorts the output).
> >
> >
> > Sorry about that it says
> >
> > 	Spell-Checking file "/usr/bin/spell" not found
> >
> > The I was wrong about when I put the speller in as
> > "/usr/bin/aspell"  It says
> >
> > Alternate speller terminated abnormally (1)
> >
> > I did some checking and "/usr/bin/spell" is not on my computer
> >
> > Also, in Pine if you leave the alternate speller line blank it
> > calls the "/usr/bin/spell" program.
>
> /usr/bin/spell is a shell script that wrappers aspell, since aspell
> works just a bit differently.  The content of /usr/bin/spell is:
>
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	# aspell -l mimicks the standard unix spell program, roughly.
> 	cat "$@" | aspell -l --mode=none | sort -u
Rick,

That worked great - well kind of.  Spell now works but before it
would bring up a listing of possible correct spellings and you
would pick from the list.  Now it just says that it's spelled
wrong and you enter the correct spelling - which would be great
if I knew how to spell..

Brad