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- From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: Has ispell been ported?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.103107.21785@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
- Organization: INMOS architecture group
- References: <1992Aug12.013115.17341@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 10:31:06 BST
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- In article <1992Aug12.013115.17341@news.iastate.edu>, jbhuber@iastate.edu (Joseph B Huber) writes:
- >Does any know if the popular Unix spelling program "ispell" has been ported to
- >OS/2 2.0?
-
- its not so much a port as a recompilation ... its the first thing
- i did after getting OS/2 and ENX/GCC.
-
- i used the ispel v3 beta sources.
-
- basically then only things to do are one or two changes to
- filenames to fit 8.3 properly and to add an IDEFAULT into
- the termio (?) info for the ioctl call.
-
- use all the setups of UNIX with the USG variety (not BSD) and
- i think its all fairly plain sailing.
-
- btw ispell v3 comes with a fairly fearsome makefile, which i don't
- think i ever fully understood, and you may find it simplest to
- strip this down to a simpler version that just builds the
- executables and the dictionary you want assuming you've already
- got unpacked/unsquashed lists of words.
-
- 'spose if i got time i could check that my binaries haven't got any
- dependencies on my system (like default library is E:\USR\LIB\ISPELL
- and i'd need to check that this was switchable by an environment var)
- then submit them to c.b.os2.
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