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To: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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Subject: Re: spell(1) replacement? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 14:39:36 MST."
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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 14:34:37 -0800
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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It's more than somewhat of a pig, but you're right, it's almost spell
compatible when run with -l.

Thanks.

  From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
  Subject: Re: spell(1) replacement?
  > Have we never done a spell(1) replacement for FreeBSD!?
  > I just tried to run spell to no avail.
  
  ispell is a spell super-set.  I think you can run it in 'spell'
  compatability mode.  'ispell' is a very nice package, though somewhat of
  a pig.
  
  
  Nate