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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Revived!  The 10 Edition spell program!
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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