22 Nov
2017
22 Nov
'17
12:43 a.m.
On 11/21/17 3:48 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
In the past, I've fed corrections back to
aspell's author as bug
reports, typically with a link to
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/panelling and they get into
a new release every now and again. He's moved to github, I see.
https://github.com/GNUAspell/aspell
On a historical note, I am curious if anyone on the list remembers much
about the development of the first spell checkers in Unix? Good 'ol
remarkably accurate wikipedia suggests that it is descended from SAIL's
DEC PDP-10 version. Who wrote the first standalone tool for unix and did
they, as the wikip article says, base it on the DEC PDP-10 version
(surely it would have been c, not assembly)? I see the man page for it
in v6, but no executable. Just curious.
Will
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