Subject: spellchecker

From: Ryszard Tanas <[email-masked]>
Date: 18 Nov 1995 11:42:50 GMT

-Hi everybody!

I have a problem with the spellchecking when editting a message with pico. I
use pine 3.91 under linux with ispell, and when I go to the spellchecker the
ispell usage message appears, but it does not perform the checking. Can someone
tell me if it is possible to make it work?
Thanks, R. Tanas

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From: Ahuva <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 12:43:48 +0200

Hi!
When I use <r>eply to answer a post, and I want to include the original 
post, if my addition is to short, the post won't get posted.   I  get 
a message that the original post was longer than the additional text, so 
it can't be posted.  Is there any way to change the configuration, so 
that even small addition will be get posted? (usefull for example if it's 
a string post, where consecutive answers are added to a pile of posts...)
	Please send an answer to the above E-mail.
						Thanks,
							Ahuva

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From: [email-masked] (Jerry Lynch)
Date: 19 Nov 1995 12:24:47 -0500

Try making /usr/bin/spell the following file instead of a link to ispell:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
#! /bin/sh
#
# A front-end to ispell which allows it to act like the "spell" program
# By: Christopher Neufeld <[email-masked]>
#

case $# in
        0)      ispell -l | sort | uniq ;;
        *)      cat $@ | ispell -l | sort | uniq ;;
esac
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This will make the command "spell" behave like the typical unix spell 
command.

To actually use ispell with its list of suggested words, you can make 
ispell the alternate editor by adding the following to your .pinerc:

editor=/usr/bin/ispell -x

Hope that helps.

Jerry	<[email-masked]>

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 20:29:27 -0500

On Sun, 19 Nov 1995, Ahuva wrote (excerpt):

> it can't be posted.

    This does not seem to be a problem of Pine as such.  Pine is a Mail 
USER Agent (MUA), but it has to hand off the outgoing mail to a Mail 
TRANSFER Agent (MTA), and some MTAs apply the restriction to which you 
are referring.  Fortunately, my system's MTA does not, but sometimes when 
I post to a moderated newsgroup, the moderator's MTA bounces it if I do 
not count words and lines correctly, even if I am quoting a bit more than 
my reply just to provide proper context without having to resort to 
paraphrase.  Drives me nuts!

Paul
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From: Sven Guckes <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Nov 1995 20:10:22 GMT

Ahuva <[email-masked]> writes:
>When I use <r>eply to answer a post, and I want to include the original post,
>if my addition is to short, the post won't get posted.  I get a message that
>the original post was longer than the additional text, so it can't be posted.

Good!  That's a "good feature"[tm]!

>Is there any way to change the configuration, so that even small addition will
>be get posted?  Usefull for example if it's a string post where consecutive
>answers are added to a pile of posts.

Those "string post" aka "cascades" are quite traffic friendly - NOT!
And they are only one of those reasons why the rule "more original than quote"
is used.  Let's keep it that way!

Should I mention that I edited your post and that I added more than I am
quoting from you?  Thank God for sigs!  hehehe

Sven

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