* [TUHS] Revived! The 10 Edition spell program!
@ 2019-09-24 17:10 arnold
2019-09-24 17:15 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-24 19:42 ` Kurt H Maier
0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: arnold @ 2019-09-24 17:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs; +Cc: doug
Hello All.
I have revived the 10th edition spell(1) program, allowing it to compile
and run on "modern" systems.
See https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/v10spell ; the README.md gives
an overview of what was done.
Enjoy!
Arnold
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* Re: [TUHS] Revived! The 10 Edition spell program!
2019-09-24 17:10 [TUHS] Revived! The 10 Edition spell program! arnold
@ 2019-09-24 17:15 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-24 17:30 ` arnold
2019-09-24 19:42 ` Kurt H Maier
1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Clem Cole @ 2019-09-24 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Aharon Robbins; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society, Doug McIlroy
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Very cool. Thank you
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 1:11 PM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
> Hello All.
>
> I have revived the 10th edition spell(1) program, allowing it to compile
> and run on "modern" systems.
>
> See https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/v10spell ; the README.md gives
> an overview of what was done.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Arnold
>
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* Re: [TUHS] Revived! The 10 Edition spell program!
2019-09-24 17:10 [TUHS] Revived! The 10 Edition spell program! arnold
2019-09-24 17:15 ` Clem Cole
@ 2019-09-24 19:42 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-09-24 19:58 ` Larry McVoy
1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Kurt H Maier @ 2019-09-24 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: arnold; +Cc: tuhs
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:10:37AM -0600, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> Hello All.
>
> I have revived the 10th edition spell(1) program, allowing it to compile
> and run on "modern" systems.
Great! I've been using this extensively on my writing, but I've been
using the version that comes with plan9port. It'll be nice to have a
standalone version.
Thanks!
khm
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* Re: [TUHS] Revived! The 10 Edition spell program!
2019-09-24 19:42 ` Kurt H Maier
@ 2019-09-24 19:58 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-24 20:30 ` Kurt H Maier
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Larry McVoy @ 2019-09-24 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Kurt H Maier; +Cc: tuhs
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:42:13PM -0700, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:10:37AM -0600, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> > Hello All.
> >
> > I have revived the 10th edition spell(1) program, allowing it to compile
> > and run on "modern" systems.
>
> Great! I've been using this extensively on my writing, but I've been
> using the version that comes with plan9port. It'll be nice to have a
> standalone version.
How is this better than spell(1) on Linux?
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* Re: [TUHS] Revived! The 10 Edition spell program!
2019-09-24 19:58 ` Larry McVoy
@ 2019-09-24 20:30 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-09-25 6:15 ` arnold
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Kurt H Maier @ 2019-09-24 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry McVoy; +Cc: tuhs
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:58:35PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> How is this better than spell(1) on Linux?
Assuming you're talking about GNU spell, it suffers from feature creep
(localization stuff, hard-coded markup filters, etc) which makes the
code less pleasant to work with. I'm not sure why my spellchecker needs
curses support, but GNU spell has it. Also I don't like having to worry
about licensing cruft when I e.g. copy a binary over to a system at
work. If I can do my work with 5% the source code, that's generally my
plan.
khm
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* Re: [TUHS] Revived! The 10 Edition spell program!
2019-09-24 20:30 ` Kurt H Maier
@ 2019-09-25 6:15 ` arnold
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: arnold @ 2019-09-25 6:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: lm, khm; +Cc: tuhs
Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:58:35PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >
> > How is this better than spell(1) on Linux?
>
> Assuming you're talking about GNU spell, it suffers from feature creep
> (localization stuff, hard-coded markup filters, etc) which makes the
> code less pleasant to work with. I'm not sure why my spellchecker needs
> curses support, but GNU spell has it. Also I don't like having to worry
> about licensing cruft when I e.g. copy a binary over to a system at
> work. If I can do my work with 5% the source code, that's generally my
> plan.
>
>
> khm
It's not clear what 'spell' is --- it differs from distro to distro,
often based on aspell. Whatever is on Ubuntu doesn't even know
how to use 'sort -u' on its output.
For myself, I don't claim that v10spell is better or worse than anything
else out there; it simply provides another option, especially for fans
of the original Unix code. :-)
Arnold
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