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- Subject: ISpell
-
- Description: Interactive Spelling Checker with ARexx Server Mode for the Amiga
-
- Version: 3.3LJR [with ARexx Server Mode]
-
- Requires: AmigaOS 2.04 or later
-
- Long_Description:
- Plainly speaking, ISpell is a spelling checker with a few features
- you don't get anywhere else...
- Most importantly, unlike the unix spell program, ISpell is interactive.
-
- ISpell v3.3LJR can be used in two major modes:
-
- 1. Original Interactive Mode (does not require ARexx):
- This mode will allow the user to interactively spell check and correct a
- text document. Regular expression lookup of word patterns is possible.
- All operations are *fast* because ISpell uses an in-core hash table of
- words (i.e. no disk access once we get going). This mode is considered
- obsolete by myself. There are some problems related to window size
- (due to original port job) and usage from workbench (conversion to
- SAS/C from MANX) that I have never bothered to fix. ISpell hooked to a
- good text editor via ARexx just works so much better that it seems not
- worth the effort...
-
- 2. ARexx Server Mode (of course ARexx server mode requires ARexx):
- This mode allows the end user to hook ISpell up to text
- editors and other things that need a spell checking service.
- Regular expression lookup of word patterns is also possible
- in ARexx Server Mode. This mode appears to be even faster than
- the above mode, because ISpell stays in memory waiting for requests ---
- the mumble, mumble (500K) hash file only has to be loaded into
- memory once at startup time.
-
- Currently supported ARexx commands:
- Add, QuickAdd, Check, QuickCheck, FileCheck, ExtendedFileCheck, Lookup,
- Version, Exit.
-
- ARexx macros are provided for
- GUISpell 1.1 (package now included),
- CygnusEd Professional v2.12,
- TurboText (when used with GUISpell - Thanks Christopher A. Wichura),
- TurboText (with plain ISpell - Thanks Willy G. J. Langeveld),
- mg3beta4 or later(Thanks Mike Meyer!),
- GNU EMACS (Thanks Steve Koren!),
- VLT v5.517 or later,
- WShell, and the command line.
-
- From man/readme.old:
- ``My eternal gratitude to the author of ispell -- I don't know how I
- ever lived without it. I received his permission to post ispell to
- the net...'' - Walt Buehring [a long time ago]
- Permission to freely distribute for non-profit use is hereby granted.
- Fred Fish is welcome and encouraged to place this on a ><> Disk.
-
- Loren J. Rittle
- rittle@comm.mot.com
- Fri Nov 20 01:20:41 1992
-