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- .th SPELL I 4/15/75
- .sh NAME
- spell \*- find spelling errors
- .sh SYNOPSIS
- .bd spell
- [
- .bd \*-v
- ]
- file ...
- .sh DESCRIPTION
- .it Spell
- collects the words from the named documents,
- and looks them up in a dictionary.
- The words not found are printed on the standard output.
- Words which are reasonable transformations of dictionary entries
- (e.g. a dictionary entry plus
- .it s
- )
- are not printed.
- If no files are given, the input is from the standard input.
- .s3
- If the
- .bd \*-v
- flag is given, all words which are not literally in the dictionary are printed;
- those which can be transformed to lie in the dictionary are so marked,
- and the others are marked with asterisks.
- .s3
- The process takes several minutes.
- .sh FILES
- /usr/lib/w2006, /usr/dict/words, /usr/lib/spell[123]
- .sh "SEE ALSO"
- typo (I)
- .sh BUGS
- .s3
- Because of the mapping into lower case and the stripping of
- special characters, words may be hard to locate in the original text.
- .s3
- The escape sequences of troff (I) are not correctly recognized.
- .s3
- More suffixes, and perhaps some prefixes, should be added.
- .s3
- The dictionary cannot be distributed because of
- copyright limitations.
-