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- From: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
- Subject: Re: Common lib directory possible with ispell ?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.231234.10103@ITcorp.com>
- Organization: Interrupt Technology Corporation, Manhattan Beach, CA
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 23:12:34 GMT
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- In article <1704@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> glenn@prl.philips.co.uk
- (Glenn Coombs) writes:
-
- > I have just compiled ispell-2.0.02 and added ispell.el to my
- > GNU Emacs 18.57 and everything works fine. However, I would
- > like to be able to use ispell on both Sun3 and Sun4 (Sparc)
- > machines. What I would like to know is can I use just one
- > ispell.hash file in the ispell/lib directory ?
-
- The short answer is "it depends on the hardware involved." The medium
- answer is "try it; if ispell doesn't bomb on startup, then it
- should work just fine."
-
- BTW, a machine-independent hash file is one thing on my wish list for
- future ispells. You won't see it in Ispell V3, though.
-
- > The ispell.hash file that I get when compiling on a Sparc is
- > the same length as the one I get when compiling on a Sun3.
- > The two files are different though. They are the same for
- > the first ~280K which is just the list of words. After that
- > they appear to differ quite regularly up to the end of file.
-
- The things that can affect ispell's hash file format are byte ordering
- and structure padding. If ispell can read the hash file header, then
- the byte ordering isn't a problem.
-
- The differences you are seeing are probably due to different fill
- values in the padded part of the structure. If you can ispell a
- reasonably large document without a crash, then you're exercising the
- whole hash file, and I think you can safely continue operating with
- just one hash file.
- --
- Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com uunet!desint!geoff
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