Top > Text creation and manipulation > Word processing > spell

spell - Spell checker

A spell checking program which prints each misspelled word on a line of its own. It is designed as a clone of the standard Unix 'spell' program, and implemented as a wrapper for 'Ispell."

Spell accepts its arguments as a list of files to read from. Within that list, the magical file name "-" causes spell to read from the standard input. In addition, when called with no file name arguments, Spell assumes that it should process standard input.



Obtaining

Web pageftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/spell/spell-1.0.tar.gz
Source tarballftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/spell/spell-1.0.tar.gz
Version 1.0 (stable) released on 1996-04-06
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<tmorgan@pobox.com>
Developer List<tmorgan@pobox.com>
Bug List<tmorgan@pobox.com>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Use requirementsglibc
Build prerequisitesgcc, glibc ncurses4
Related programsispell, Aspell, Flyspell.el, Pspell, WBOSS

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-02-01
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

Categories



The copyright licensing notice below applies to this text. The software described in this text has its own copyright notice and license, which can usually be found in the distribution itself.

Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of this license is included in the file COPYING.DOC.

Please report any problems in this page to bug-directory@gnu.org, or find out how you can help fix them.

The FSF provides this directory as a service to the free software community. Please consider donating to the FSF to help support this project.