Subject: Pine's spell checker?

From: [email-masked] (Seif Zadeh Hossein)
Date: 16 Feb 1995 06:13:24 GMT

Hi there,
Every time I try to spell check my mails using pine's spell checker, it nags
about all the abbreviations that are present in the mails, eg. internet
addresses, names and so on. Is there any way I may define a custom dictionary,
to stop this nagging?
Thanx in advance.

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| Hossein S. Zadeh                  |                                     |
| Dept of Aerospace Engineering     | [email-masked]  |
| Royal Melb. Inst. of Tech (RMIT)  | [email-masked]    |
| Melbourne, Australia              |                                     |

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Harmon)
Date: 18 Feb 1995 08:55:36 GMT

Seif Zadeh Hossein ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi there,
: Every time I try to spell check my mails using pine's spell checker, it nags
: about all the abbreviations that are present in the mails, eg. internet
: addresses, names and so on. Is there any way I may define a custom dictionary,
: to stop this nagging?

The problem with ispell is that it only works with PICO from within PINE. 
I like to use PICO as my default editor in other programs as well so I 
created a custom dictionary for PICO.

Try this:
- spell needs to know the location of the default dictionary. It is usually:
  /usr/dict/hlista
- spell needs two files in your home directory:
  (1) a list of new words to add to your custom dictionary (upper or lower 
      case, it doesn't seem to matter),
  (2) a new hashed version of your custom dictionary. 
- I named mine:
  (1) ispell.words so I can use it for spell & ispell (clever of me), 
  (2) .newhlista
- add the following to your .login:
  setenv SPELL 'spell -d .newhlista'
- Use the following to create a custom dictionary for spell:
  cat [file] | spellin [path to default dict]/hlista > [custom dictionary]
  cat ispell.words | /usr/dict/hlista > .newhlista
When you log off and log back on your new custom dictionary will contain 
your words. Good luck.

	Robert H. Harmon ([email-masked])
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