Subject: pico won't ispell

From: bp@ (Bruce P. Solomon)
Date: 9 May 1996 13:14:58 GMT

Using stand-alone Pico 2.7 under linux, with SPELL environment set to 
ispell.  When I check spelling (^T) all I get is a list of possible 
arguments to ispell and a list of commands.  It's the same thing you get 
if you call ispell without a file name.  Looks like Pico is calling 
ispell, but not telling it what to check.  Any ideas?

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From: "John A. Perry" <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 May 1996 07:34:24 -0700

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> ispell, but not telling it what to check.  Any ideas?

I get the same thing.

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From: [email-masked] (Paul A Sand)
Date: 13 May 1996 20:24:18 GMT

>I get the same thing.

I've installed a `spell' command in /usr/bin as a one-line
shell script:

    /usr/bin/ispell -l

The -l option makes ispell work like ``real'' spell, and keeps programs
that expect that behavior happy. 

For pico, I would imagine you can also set the SPELL environment
variable to "ispell -l".
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