From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 0956a8ab for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id DFA299BA29; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:16:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8108947B9; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:16:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 63842947B9; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:16:01 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96CB393F38 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:16:00 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id x8P6FqFF006683 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:15:52 -0600 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id x8P6FoWX006682; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:15:50 -0600 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <201909250615.x8P6FoWX006682@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:15:50 -0600 To: lm@mcvoy.com, khm@sciops.net References: <201909241710.x8OHAbF8014895@freefriends.org> <20190924194213.GA74746@wopr> <20190924195835.GB21722@mcvoy.com> <20190924203052.GB74746@wopr> In-Reply-To: <20190924203052.GB74746@wopr> User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] Revived! The 10 Edition spell program! X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Kurt H Maier 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