Subject: ISpell
Description: Interactive Spelling Checker with ARexx Server Mode for the Amiga
Version: 3.3LJR [with ARexx Server Mode]
Requires: AmigaOS 2.04 or later
Long_Description:
Plainly speaking, ISpell is a spelling checker with a few features
you don't get anywhere else...
Most importantly, unlike the unix spell program, ISpell is interactive.
ISpell v3.3LJR can be used in two major modes:
1. Original Interactive Mode (does not require ARexx):
This mode will allow the user to interactively spell check and correct a
text document. Regular expression lookup of word patterns is possible.
All operations are *fast* because ISpell uses an in-core hash table of
words (i.e. no disk access once we get going). This mode is considered
obsolete by myself. There are some problems related to window size
(due to original port job) and usage from workbench (conversion to
SAS/C from MANX) that I have never bothered to fix. ISpell hooked to a
good text editor via ARexx just works so much better that it seems not
worth the effort...
2. ARexx Server Mode (of course ARexx server mode requires ARexx):
This mode allows the end user to hook ISpell up to text
editors and other things that need a spell checking service.
Regular expression lookup of word patterns is also possible
in ARexx Server Mode. This mode appears to be even faster than
the above mode, because ISpell stays in memory waiting for requests ---
the mumble, mumble (500K) hash file only has to be loaded into
memory once at startup time.
Currently supported ARexx commands:
Add, QuickAdd, Check, QuickCheck, FileCheck, ExtendedFileCheck, Lookup,
Version, Exit.
ARexx macros are provided for
GUISpell 1.1 (package now included),
CygnusEd Professional v2.12,
TurboText (when used with GUISpell - Thanks Christopher A. Wichura),
TurboText (with plain ISpell - Thanks Willy G. J. Langeveld),
mg3beta4 or later(Thanks Mike Meyer!),
GNU EMACS (Thanks Steve Koren!),
VLT v5.517 or later,
WShell, and the command line.
From man/readme.old:
``My eternal gratitude to the author of ispell -- I don't know how I
ever lived without it. I received his permission to post ispell to
the net...'' - Walt Buehring [a long time ago]
Permission to freely distribute for non-profit use is hereby granted.
Fred Fish is welcome and encouraged to place this on a ><> Disk.
Loren J. Rittle
rittle@comm.mot.com
Fri Nov 20 01:20:41 1992
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