* [9fans] /sys/src/cmd/spell
@ 2000-07-07 0:40 pip
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From: pip @ 2000-07-07 0:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
The man page of spell(1) seems inconsistent with the source for
sprog and /rc/bin/spell, with respect to the '-a' flag,
/rc/bin/spell does not recognize '-a' and hands off to deroff. If
you 'fix' spell to recognize '-a' and pass it to sprog, it does, but it
is not entirely clear what sprog does when aflag is set, circa line
530 in sprog.c, from a casual perusal of the source.
That said, what is the correct way to label the output from spell
with a tag of the (mis)spell occurrence ?
Thanks.
-
pip
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* Re: [9fans] /sys/src/cmd/spell
@ 2000-07-07 18:18 rob pike
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From: rob pike @ 2000-07-07 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
The man page of spell(1) seems inconsistent with the source for
sprog and /rc/bin/spell, with respect to the '-a' flag,
The man page is wrong. The -a flag is passed to sprog by acme's spell
program (/acme/bin/aspell). It expects the input to be in the right form,
properly labeled, and preserves it on output. Spell does nothing of the kind.
The simplest fix is to remove -a from the man page, which I've done locally,
until a better architecture (that is, one that doesn't use deroff) comes to mind.
-rob
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* [9fans] /sys/src/cmd/spell
@ 2000-07-06 21:41 pip
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From: pip @ 2000-07-06 21:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
The man page of spell(1) seems inconsistent with the source for
sprog and /rc/bin/spell, with respect to the '-a' flag,
/rc/bin/spell does not recognize '-a' and hands off to deroff. If
you 'fix' spell to recognize '-a' and pass it to sprog, it does, but it
is not entirely clear what sprog does when aflag is set, circa line
530 in sprog.c, from a casual perusal of the source.
That said, what is the correct way to label the output from spell
with a tag of the (mis)spell occurrence ?
Thanks.
-
pip
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