From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:43:05 +0200 From: Lucio De Re lucio@proxima.alt.za Subject: [9fans] Brian Kernighan? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9baeb99e-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19991111094305.ynjTqbMYbaN21IGleZTYmU0gRhLZz13gZdJs3NQnG8M@z> The Bell-Labs web site seems unable to serve BWK's details, and I seem to recall that he was responsible for an algorithm to identify single-character spelling errors and character transposition. Can somebody point me in the right direction on this score? Sorry to abuse this mailing list, but it's the closet I have to the subject I'm interested in :-( The URL I can't seem to get access to, by the way, is (I hope I got that right :-) I seem to get a "connection refused". ++L