24 Sep
2019
24 Sep
'19
5:10 p.m.
Hello All.
I have revived the 10th edition spell(1) program, allowing it to compile
and run on "modern" systems.
See https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/v10spell ; the README.md gives
an overview of what was done.
Enjoy!
Arnold
24 Sep
24 Sep
5:15 p.m.
New subject: Revived! The 10 Edition spell program!
Very cool. Thank you
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 1:11 PM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Hello All.
I have revived the 10th edition spell(1) program, allowing it to compile
and run on "modern" systems.
See https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/v10spell ; the README.md gives
an overview of what was done.
Enjoy!
Arnold
5:30 p.m.
New subject: Revived! The 10 Edition spell program!
You're welcome. Yet Another Labor of Love. :-)
Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Very cool. Thank you
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 1:11 PM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
> Hello All.
>
> I have revived the 10th edition spell(1) program, allowing it to compile
> and run on "modern" systems.
>
> See https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/v10spell ; the README.md gives
> an overview of what was done.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Arnold
>
7:42 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:10:37AM -0600, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Hello All.
I have revived the 10th edition spell(1) program, allowing it to compile
and run on "modern" systems.
Great! I've been using this extensively on my writing, but I've been
using the version that comes with plan9port. It'll be nice to have a
standalone version.
Thanks!
khm
7:58 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:42:13PM -0700, Kurt H Maier wrote:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:10:37AM -0600,
arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
How is this better than spell(1) on Linux?
Hello All.
I have revived the 10th edition spell(1) program, allowing it to compile
and run on "modern" systems.
Great! I've been using this extensively on my writing, but I've been
using the version that comes with plan9port. It'll be nice to have a
standalone version.
8:30 p.m.
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
25 Sep
25 Sep
6:15 a.m.
Kurt H Maier <khm(a)sciops.net> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:58:35PM -0700, Larry McVoy
wrote:
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
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
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