Autzoo.1145 net.v7bugs utzoo!henry Mon Nov 23 16:58:49 1981 spell(1) options As distributed with V7, the -x option to spell(1) does not work, at all. /usr/lib/spell is prepared to handle it but never gets to see it, because somebody forgot to allow for it in /bin/spell. The fix is to add the following line just before the -a line: -x) B="$B -x" ;; Also, -v is misdocumented; many people misread it as printing plausible derivations for things spell couldn't find at all.