Subject: wish list ?

From: Muriel McKay <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 16:06:55 -0500 (EST)

I'd like a simple way to invoke spell -b  to use the British spelling .
I'm not very technical and we are still on pine 3.07 so perhaps something
has been done already or is on the cards . Is there a simple way to do
this already ? I figure the spell.c file in pico is where the change needs
to be made .

===============================================================================
Muriel McKay,
Analyst, Desktop Computing Support.
CIS.  ABB132 ext. 23630

---

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 13:37:27 -0800 (PST)

Muriel,

You can do this very easily by setting the SPELL environment variable 
before entering Pine.  If you are running csh, the command is

	setenv SPELL "spell -b"

--DLM

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

---

From: Richard Lee <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 16:02:11 -0500 (CDT)

> this already ? I figure the spell.c file in pico is where the change needs

	Try adding this to your .profile or .login:

SPELL="spell -b "
export SPELL

	That ought to work.
	(I'm not an expert on this stuff, so if I'm wrong, just send me 
back to my philosophy books.)

--

Dr. Richard Lee                         [email-masked]
Department of Philosophy Old Main 318   [email-masked]
University of Arkansas                  phone: 501-575-5826
Fayetteville, AR 72701

---

From: Dave King <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 08:01:42 +0000 (GMT)

Muriel, here's a KornShell specific solution.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

typeset -x SPELL='spell -b'

This sets the environment variable and exports it to "child" shells.

If you use the KornShell exclusively on your system and you want to 
ensure that the British spelling option is always used you can put:

typeset -x SPELL='spell -b'

In /etc/profile. 

Dave

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Dave King, Admin. Computing Services Manager, University of Bristol
[email-masked] (JANET)  [email-masked] (INTERNET)