sanity check on ispell
Berna Massingill
bmassing at cs.trinity.edu
Tue Nov 22 10:02:10 UTC 2005
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:43:34PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:24:30PM -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>> > I am curious. When I run ispell it thinks that ther is a valid spelling
>> > for a word presumably in English. Is it just me or is it a general
>> > problem with ispell.
>>
>> Try using aspell instead. I just checked, and aspell correctly catches
>> "ther". It is a replacement for ispell, so it should fit into your app
>> nicely.
>>
ispell is probably just a wrapper script for aspell -- that's how
it's been on the last few RedHat / Fedora Core systems I've used.
-- blm
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