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Subject: Re: [9fans] /sys/src/cmd/spell
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Fri,  7 Jul 2000 14:18:37 -0400
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	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