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From: Matt Smith <freebsd@xtaz.co.uk>
To: Stephen Fisher <sfisher@SDF.ORG>
Subject: Re: Why was ispell removed?
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On Dec 01 13:58, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> I recently noticed that the ispell port has been removed in favor of the 
> aspell-ispell port ("ispell compatibility script for aspell").  Does 
> anyone know why it was removed?  All I see on Fresh Ports is that it 
> was deprecated and finally removed in January of this year.  
> 
> (The ispell script for aspell doesn't fully replicate ispell 
> functionality such as checking words on the command line as shown below)
> 
> Real ispell:
> >ispell
> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.3.02 12 Jun 2005
> word: word
> ok
> 
> 
> word: ^D
> 
> 
> 
> aspell script:
> >ispell
> Ispell compatibility script for Aspell.
> Usage: /usr/local/bin/ispell [options] -a|-l|-v[v]|-c|-e[1-4]|<file>

It seems that you can just use the -a switch on aspell:

$ aspell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6.1)
helo this is a tset
& helo 11 0: he lo, he-lo, hello, helot, help, halo, hell, held, helm,
hero, he'll
*
*
*
& tset 5 15: test, stet, Set, Tet, set

It seems to do exactly the same as hunspell like you have been pointed
to in the rest of this thread?

-- 
Matt