From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 06:39:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA28705 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:39:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.185.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA28679 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:39:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id VAA25241; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:39:10 +0700 Received: (from victor@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA00259; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:42:53 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, oystein@frosk.zoo.uib.no References: Message-ID: Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Date: Thu, 28 Nov 96 20:42:53 +0700 X-Mailer: BML [UNIX Beauty Mail v.1.39] Subject: Re: How can I check spelling of a text? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Victor A. Sudakov wrote: > > > When I installed my FreeBSD 2.1.0 from CD, I also installed the > > dictionary files. Now they are in /usr/share/dict. However, I > > cannot understand how I can make use of them. I just cannot > > find a command to run to check spelling of a text. > >=20 > > I know about the ispell utility from the ports collection, but > > it seems to be using its own dictionary files. > > ispell suppose to work with any language, you must just specify which=20 > dictionary you want to use. See the ispell(1) manual. Thank you very much for your advice. First, this gives me hope that I will be able to make it work with the Russian dictionary. BTW, do you know if there is a German dictionary around? However, in a book about UNIX I read that there are very simple spell checkers that are not interactive, but just read text and make a list of words that were not found. I would prefer such. Do you know where I could take one? --- Victor A. Sudakov E-mail: victor@vas.tomsk.su Center of Information Technologies FidoNet: 2:5005/49 Tomsk Region Education Department Telephone: +7 3822 224916 Tomsk, Russian Federation Telefax: +7 3822 225912