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From: Nemo <cym224@gmail.com>
To: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Archeology: AberMUD, BCPL, ec.
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 09:41:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzzncAMPftxaQ_uXLWFpVL-LaNKa8WHY0ROvqaifbc_+RA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201902010447.x114l9kX046939@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

On 31/01/2019, Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> I OCR'd a sizable manuscript written on a pretty shabby portable
> typewriter.
>
> I scanned each page twice, making sure to move the paper between scans.
> Then I ran both diff (by words, not lines) and spell to smoke out trouble.
> The word list for a program listing is quite short and easy to generate.
> (Print a list of all the apparent words and visually eliminate the
> nonsense.)
> And a spell check is an easy pipeline of standard utilities.
>
> doug

Very nice!  (I shall remember this technique.)

N.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-01 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-01  4:47 Doug McIlroy
2019-02-01 14:41 ` Nemo [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-01-30 19:51 Richard Salz
2019-01-31  7:15 ` Alec Muffett
2019-01-31  7:28   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-01-31 14:42   ` Clem Cole
2019-01-31 19:34     ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-01-31 19:45       ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-02-01  5:08   ` Jason Stevens
2019-02-01  8:09     ` Steve Nickolas

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