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- From: rittle@supra.comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle)
- Subject: Re: ISpell -- what's the latest version?
- Organization: Systems Technology Research, Motorola, Inc.
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:23:27 GMT
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- In article <42990@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) writes:
- >What is the Latest version of ISpell for the amiga? The latest I
- >have seen was on FF400 (or less). Is there anything newer? I
- >understand that Thomas Rokicki (sp?) made some additions to it to
- >work well with TeX. Any comments?
-
- The simple answer to the above is:
-
- ISpell 3.3LJR
-
- Yes, there is a new version of ISpell available.
- Check FF770 - FF790 or FTP from wuarchive.wustl.edu or AmiNet site.
-
- The complex answer as best I know it:
-
- Someone wrote ISpell.
- Many people hacked on it at MIT (?).
- Someone else rewrote/ported ISpell for/to UNIX (and C?).
- Many people hacked on it.
- [Released to UseNet via some newsgroup.]
- Many people hacked on it (noticing a pattern here... :-)
- Someone ported ISpell to the Amiga.
- Thomas added some features and fixed some bugs in the original Amiga port.
- [It hit FF4XX somewhere in here, but I recall having had a version for
- a while before it hit FF4XX, I may have downloaded it from the radical
- eye support on BIX.]
- I added some features and an ARexx port.
- [I sent the changes back to Thomas.]
- [I released a version through comp.sources.amiga while Tad still ran the show.]
- I let it sit for a while. Then I wrote a GUI front-end for the ISpell
- ARexx server.
- [I released GUISpell about a year ago.]
- I let it sit for a while. Then I added all the support ARexx modules
- that people sent me, recompiled with the latest C compiler and released
- a new package last month. I also inclued my latest GUI front-end for
- use with ISpell.
-
-
- Meanwhile, in another part of the dungeon:
-
- Someone has continued to hack on ISpell to create
- International ISpell 3.X BETA. This version of ISpell keeps
- information about the language out of the ISpell program.
- Affix files and dictionaries for many languages have been
- created.
-
- It has been my hope to marry my ARexx support in the currently
- supported Amiga ISpell to IISpell 3.0. The problem is that it
- has never come out of beta... maybe someday.
-
- Regards,
- Loren
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