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SPELL ( 1) SPELL (l)
NAME
spell, hashmake, spellin, hashcheck - find spelling errors
SYNOPSIS
spell [ -v ] [ -b ] [ -x ] [ -1 ] [ +local_file ] [ files ]
/usr/lib/spell/hashmake
jusr/lib/spell/spellin n
/usr/lib/spell/hashcheck spelling_list
DESCRIPTION
Spell collects words from the named files and looks them up in a
spelling list. Words that neither occur among nor are 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 nroff(l), tbl(l), and eqn(l) 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 , traveled, etc., this
option insists upon -ise in words like standardise, Fowler and the
OED to the contrary notwithstanding.
Under the -x option, every plausible stem is printed with = for
each word.
By default, spell (like deroff(l)) follows chains of included files
( .so and .nx troff requests), unless the names of such included files
begin with /usr/lib. Under the -1 option, spell will follow the
chains of all included files.
Under the +local_file option, words found in local_file are
removed from spell 's output. Local_file is the name of a userprovided
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, and while more haphazard
than an ordinary dictionary, 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.
Pertinent auxiliary files may be specified by name arguments, indicated
below with their default settings (see FILES). Copies of all
output are accumulated in the history file. The stop list filters out
misspellings (e.g., thier=thy-y+ier) that would otherwise pass.
Three routines help maintain and check the hash lists used by
spell :
hashmake Reads a list of words from the standard input and
writes the corresponding nine-digit hash code on the
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