Ispell 3.1 Release Notes

Table of Contents

  • What is Ispell?
  • Support Policy
  • Installation Information
  • Silicon Graphics Legal Notice
  • Author's Notice(s)
  • Documentation Information

    • What is Ispell?

    Ispell is a fast screen-oriented spelling checker that shows you your errors in the context of the original file, and suggests possible corrections when it can figure them out.

    Author's Notice(s):

    Ispell is a very old program. The original was written in PDP-10 assembly in 1971, by R. E. Gorin. The C version was written by Pace Willisson of MIT. Walt Buehring of Texas Instruments added the emacs interface and posted it to the net. Geoff Kuenning added the international support and created the current posting. Many, many other people contributed to the current version; a complete list (with a much more detailed history) can be found in the file "Contributors" in the source distribution.

    Installation Information

    Ispell includes these subsystems:
    fw_ispell.sw.ispell (default) Execution environment for Ispell.
    fw_ispell.man.ispell (default) Ispell's online manual pages (preformatted).
    fw_ispell.man.relnotes (default) Ispell's online release notes.
    fw_ispell.src The complete Ispell 3.1 software distribution from which this product was built (including any SGI modifications).

    Installation Method

    All of the subsystems for Ispell can be installed using IRIX. You do not need to use the miniroot. Refer to the Software Installation Administrator's Guide for complete installation instructions.

    Prerequisites

    Your workstation must be running IRIX 5.3 or later in order to use this product.

    Documentation Information

    Preformatted manual pages are installed by default; consult ispell(1).