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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: spell for FreeBSD
Date: 13 Jul 1996 15:03:02 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <4s8dr6$1fq@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
References: <DuEx1o.Dun@iquest.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost
Keywords: spell spellprog freebsd
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In article <DuEx1o.Dun@iquest.net>,  <blah@foo.com> wrote:
>	I am trying to port a shell script I wrote under
>Solaris to FreeBSD but I can't find the 'spell' program.
>(You know, the one you can do: spell filename 
> and it spits back a sorted list of any word it can't find
> in the dictionary)

Try ispell from the ports collection.

>Any advice would be greatly appreciated in an email 
>response to: awdorrin@holli.com or 
>awdorrin@ictest.delcoelect.com

Cc'd as requested.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/