Date:         Sun, 13 Jun 1999 12:49:52 -0400
From:         "Nathan Thompson" <quimby@city-net.com>
Subject:      spell
To:           "ppt" <ppt@perl.com>
Delivery-Date: Sun Jun 13 10:52:58 1999

I'm releasing a version of spell much like the UNIX version.
You can pick it up at http://www.city-net.com/~quimby/ .
Here's the READ.ME:

spell: a mostly traditional implementation of the UNIX spelling checker.
Copyright 1999 Nathan Scott Thompson ( quimby at city-net dot com )
You may use this according to the GNU Public License: see http://www.gnu.org

VERSION:
This is the first beta release.
Consider especially the word lists and the stop list likely to change.

FILES:
    depod       - pod filter
    deroff      - troff filter
    spell       - spelling checker
    spellin     - add words to hashed word list
    spellout    - compare words to hashed word list
    Spelling.pm - support module
    english     - base word list, stemmed
    american    - American word list, stemmed
    british     - British word list, stemmed
    stoplist    - stop list
    build.bat - script to build the hashed word lists

The word lists derive from those provided with Ispell 3.1 by Geoff Kuenning
(see http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html).
I deleted some apparent errors and reduced the lists by stemming.
Nothing has been done to prevent overstemming (reduction to a valid but
unrelated stem word.)

INSTALLATION:
The file build.bat is provided to build the hashed word files.
It's a DOS batch file but works fine as a UNIX shell script.
The resulting files are named hlista, hlistb and hstop.
spell expects these files to be in /usr/dict; alternatively
you can supply another path in the SPELLDIR environment variable.