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- From: greg@carnivore.tamu.edu (Greg Economides)
- Subject: Re: Spell checker for Mailtool ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.180914.15051@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Center for Biosystems Modelling, Texas A&M University
- References: <1992Aug13.012303.22057@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:09:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.012303.22057@leland.Stanford.EDU> jrawles@leland.Stanford.EDU (jody rawles) writes:
- >Does anyone know of a spell checker that would correct or atleast
- >highlight spelling errors in mailtool?
- >
- >Sorry if this is in FAQ. If it is, just tell me where to get FAQ.
- >
-
- You could use the unix spell utility. Highlight all of the text in the
- mailtool window (quadruple-click), then, in a cmd/shelltool do:
-
- xv_get_sel | spell
-
- (this assumes that both xv_get_sel and spell are in your path. xv_get_sel
- is in $OPENWINHOME/bin).
-
- This will print out words that "spell" does not understand.
-
- This method is a bit crude, but it is quick, cheap and dirty.
-
- Peace,
- --
- Greg Economides, Systems Administrator, Center for Biosystems Modelling
- Texas A&M University
- Internet: econ@tamu.edu
- Fuzzy logic -- "Everything is not always something"
-