Subject: Spell Checking

From: "A. Wunderlin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:58:41 -0800 (PST)

I recently installed PC Pine and am getting the following error message
when running the spell checker:

	Error 0 starting speller.

In the configuration setup, no value is set for "speller".  When I checked
my configuration in my regular pine (non PC Pine) pine session, there was
no value set for that "speller" either, however, the spell checking
function works properly. 

Is spell checking available in PC Pine, and if so, what is the proper
configuration setting for it?

Thank you,  Ann

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:03:16 -0600 (CST)

posted and mailed

>From: "A. Wunderlin" <[email-masked]>
>Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:58:41 -0800 (PST)

>no value set for that "speller" either, however, the spell checking

Your Unix system has a default system-wide speller set, which you can vary in
your environment variable SPELL to use another speller.

>configuration setting for it?

It's not, and I haven't heard that it's planned for the next version.

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Mar 1998 21:24:01 +0100

>> "AHK" == Adam H Kerman <[email-masked]> writes:
AHK> posted and mailed

*argl*

>> Is spell checking available in PC Pine, and if so, what is the
>> proper configuration setting for it?
AHK> It's not, and I haven't heard that it's planned for the next
AHK> version.

You can probably use ispell for dos.

Robin

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From: Lars Scheffmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:24:17 +0100 (DST)

> configuration setting for it?

Yes and no!

For the 16-bit version of PC-Pine, yes,  :-)
for the 32-bit version, no!  :-((

For configuration of spell checking in the 16-bit version, have a look at:

http://www.washington.edu/pine/QandA/custom.html

section:
4.4 How can I perform spell checking with PC-Pine for Windows?

Regards
Lars

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From: Andrew Vardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:04:07 -0330 (NST)

Speaking of all this spell checking, how do I do it without spell checking
the Date, as well as User name?

If it says Mon

I know that is monday.  And I don't want the spell checker telling me to
correct it.  Ok?  Same with the user name being replied to.

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From: Lars Scheffmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:46:44 +0100 (DST)

> correct it.  Ok?  Same with the user name being replied to.

Most spell checkers has the option for a file with exceptions to the spell
checking.  Read the instruction for your program.

To complete my last E-mail with this subject:
I always use PC-Pine to compose, and if I want to check my spelling, I
post-pone the mail, exit PC-Pine and enter Unix-Pine for checking.

Thats the way to have the best of two worlds!

Regards 
Lars