Subject: using external speller with pine?

From: Dave Rasmussen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:46:50 -0600 (CST)

I had a user ask me about using ispell with pine, so if I
	setenv SPELL "ispell -x"
all I get is the syntax from ispell on how to use it. Is this a known
bug in pine 3.95 or should I be using some other options or?

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From: Diethard Ohrt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 09:05:51 +0100 (MET)

On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Dave Rasmussen wrote:

[> I had a user ask me about using ispell with pine, so if I
[> 	setenv SPELL "ispell -x"
[> all I get is the syntax from ispell on how to use it. Is this a known
[> bug in pine 3.95 or should I be using some other options or?
[> 
[> 

Maybe it's the same problem as that with printers which was discussed here
some time ago?
What I guess: if you call your speller from within pine, it is accessed via
a pipe, so it gets its input from stdin, not from a file, similar to:

cat {temporary file} | ispell -x

If so, you have to check if and how ispell can handle this correctly.
If not -- well, this was just a suggestion ...

Cheers,
Diti
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 09:56:23 +0000 (GMT)

I believe the "official" way of using a different spell checker within
Pine is to set it up in Pine's Setup Configuration screen.  There you will
find a variable called "speller" (complete with built-in context sensitive
help!) which can be set up to invoke your spell checker.

Here our ispell program lives in the /usr/local/pub directory, so we have
speller set to:

speller                  = /usr/local/pub/ispell

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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