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From: phillip@soda.Berkeley.EDU (Phillip "Edward" Nunez)
Subject: philspell 1.0 source code
Date: 17 Jun 1992 21:18:13 GMT
Hi everybody!! I was recently trying to proofread some of the short stories
that I write a lot and found it really hard to do under UNIX without
specialized software. I mean, even if you use "spell" to check a document,
you then have to go through by hand and change all the misspelled words to
be correct, and then to be safe you have to run it through "spell" again to
make sure you didn't make any mistakes, and that's all a big pain!
I will keep this awful lack of UNIX word versatility in mind when I write
PhilOS, but until then -- while we all still have to use UNIX or system V or
MS-DOS or something like that -- I have written this really cool new utility
called "philspell".
PHILSPELL uses a words file (default /usr/dict/words) and a lot of
complicated English grammar heuristics to spell-check a file-- but it is
even better than that! Because, as its output, PHILSPELL prints the
original document, but with all spelling *correct*!!! This is a lot cooler
than the output of more kludgey programs like "spell".
The source code for PHILSPELL is here at the end of this post. Oh yeah, you
can also get it via ftp from soda.berkeley.edu in ~ftp/pub/phillip.
Bye for now everyone!!!
Phillip "Edward" Nunez