From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:13:42 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from In-Reply-To: <15d26202-091f-0b04-146c-79f53f3aad23@gmail.com> References: <201711211608.vALG81PQ014303@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <20171121214854.E815A2032E@orac.inputplus.co.uk> <15d26202-091f-0b04-146c-79f53f3aad23@gmail.com> Message-ID: On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Will Senn wrote: > ​ > I see the man page for it in v6, but no executable. Just curious. ​There was certainly a spell by v6 in 77 timeframe, I relied on it and remember adding words to it because the dictionary was small. There was also very slick side program called 'grope' that I was told was developed using the spelling algorithms for the Bell Telephone 411 operators that one of the OYOC folks brought with them [Karn maybe - I've forgotten whom]. It had a different dictionary - that was its only disadvantage - so you had to have two dictionaries on the system [grope split the words into 26 files and the indexed them in a interesting fashion]. But being someone that can not spell to save myself, grope was a life wonderful addition to my tool kit. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: