From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 09:13:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA03851 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 09:13:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA03846 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 09:13:49 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vT9Z1-000QrgC; Thu, 28 Nov 96 17:43 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id RAA01481; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:37:24 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611281637.RAA01481@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: How can I check spelling of a text? In-Reply-To: from "Victor A. Sudakov" at "Nov 28, 96 08:31:43 pm" To: victor@vas.tomsk.su (Victor A. Sudakov) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:37:24 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Victor A. Sudakov writes: >> Victor A. Sudakov writes: >>>> how about `ispell`? >>> >>> Does it use the dictionary files in /usr/share/dict I wonder? >>> It does not seem to. >> >> No. They don't have anything to do with each other. > > That is it. Thank you, Greg :-) You're welcome. > Then I repeat my question: what exactly utility is using those > dictionaries? Or are they here just for fun eating up more than > 3 megs of my hard drive space? Does anyone happen to know? Well, I use them for a rather amusing little program to compute anagrams. But on the whole, they're not much use. If you're tight on space, you can remove them. Greg