spell(1) DG/UX R4.11 spell(1)
NAME
spell, hashmake, spellin, hashcheck - find spelling errors
SYNOPSIS
spell [ -v ] [ -b ] [ -x ] [ -l ] [ -i ] [ +localfile ] [ files ]
/usr/lib/spell/hashmake
/usr/lib/spell/spellin n
/usr/lib/spell/hashcheck spellinglist
DESCRIPTION
Spell collects words from the named files and looks them up in a
spelling list. Words not in the list or words not derivable (by
applying certain inflections, prefixes, and/or suffixes) from words
in the spelling list are printed on the standard output. If no files
are named, words are collected from the standard input.
Spell ignores most troff(1), tbl(1), and eqn(1) constructions.
Under the -v option, all words not literally in the spelling list are
printed, and plausible derivations from the words in the spelling
list are indicated.
Under the -b option, British spelling is checked. Besides preferring
centre, colour, programme, speciality, travelled, etc., this option
insists upon -ise in words like standardise.
Under the -x option, every plausible stem is printed with = for each
word.
By default, spell (like deroff(1)) follows chains of included files
(.so and .nx troff(1) requests), unless the names of such included
files begin with /usr/lib. Under the -l option, spell will follow
the chains of all included files. Under the -i option, spell will
ignore all chains of included files.
Under the +localfile option, words found in localfile are removed
from spell's output. Localfile is the name of a user-provided file
that contains a sorted list of words, one per line. With this
option, the user can specify a set of words that are correct
spellings (in addition to spell's own spelling list) for each job.
The spelling list is based on many sources. Although it is more
haphazard than an ordinary dictionary, spell is also more effective
with respect to proper names and popular technical words. Coverage
of the specialized vocabularies of biology, medicine, and chemistry
is light.
Copies of all output from spell are accumulated in the default
history file. You can specify an alternate history file by setting
the history file name argument. For the name of the history file
argument and the default setting (see "FILES").
Three routines help maintain and check spell's hash lists:
hashmake Reads a list of words from the standard input and writes
the corresponding nine-digit hash code on the standard
output.
spellin n Reads n hash codes from the standard input and writes a
compressed spelling list on the standard output.
Information about the hash coding is printed on standard
error.
hashcheck Reads a compressed spellinglist and recreates the nine-
digit hash codes for all the words in it; it writes
these codes on the standard output.
EXAMPLES
$ cat spellcheck
This is a sample file taht can be used to test teh spell comand.
Obviously there are some speling errers.
$ spell spellcheck > spellout1
$ cat spellout1
comand
errers
speling
taht
teh
$
This example shows the contents of a file with some spelling errors.
The spell command is used to check the file for errors, and the
output is sent to a file called spellout1. As you can see, all of
the misspelled words are in this file.
$ spell -v spellcheck >spellout2
$ cat spellout2
comand
errers
speling
taht
teh
+ly Obviously
+d used
$
This example uses the -v option. With this option, the misspelled
words are listed as well as all of the words not literally in the
spelling list. The plausible derivations of these words are shown.
FILES
HSPELL=/var/adm/spellhist History file.
SEE ALSO
deroff(1), sed(1), sort(1), tee(1).
eqn(1), tbl(1), troff(1) in Xroff.
geqn(1), gtbl(1), gtroff(1) in the GNU Toolset (Data General Model
R028A).
Using the Documenter's Tool Kit on the DG/UX System (069-701039).
BUGS
The spelling list's coverage is uneven. New installations will
probably wish to monitor the output for several months to gather
local additions; typically, these are kept in a separate local file
that is added to the hashed spellinglist via spellin.
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