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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1990 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"     @(#)spell.1    6.2 (Berkeley) 6/24/90
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH SPELL 1 "June 24, 1990"
        !             8: .AT 3
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: spell, spellin, spellout \- find spelling errors
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B spell
        !            13: [
        !            14: .B \-v
        !            15: ] [
        !            16: .B \-b
        !            17: ] [
        !            18: .B \-x
        !            19: ] [
        !            20: .B \-d
        !            21: hlist ] [
        !            22: .B \-s
        !            23: hstop ] [
        !            24: .B \-h
        !            25: spellhist
        !            26: ] [ file ] ...
        !            27: .PP
        !            28: .B spellin
        !            29: [ list ]
        !            30: .PP
        !            31: .B spellout
        !            32: [
        !            33: .B \-d
        !            34: ] list
        !            35: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            36: .I Spell
        !            37: collects words from the named documents,
        !            38: and looks them up in a spelling list.
        !            39: Words that neither occur among nor are derivable
        !            40: (by applying certain inflections,
        !            41: prefixes or suffixes) from words in the spelling list
        !            42: are printed on the standard output.
        !            43: If no files are named,
        !            44: words are collected from the standard input.
        !            45: .PP
        !            46: .I Spell
        !            47: ignores most
        !            48: .I troff,
        !            49: .I tbl
        !            50: and
        !            51: .IR  eqn (1)
        !            52: constructions.
        !            53: .PP
        !            54: Under the
        !            55: .B \-v
        !            56: option, all words not literally in the spelling list are printed,
        !            57: and plausible derivations from spelling list words are indicated.
        !            58: .PP
        !            59: Under the 
        !            60: .B \-b
        !            61: option, British spelling is checked.
        !            62: Besides preferring
        !            63: .ft I
        !            64: centre, colour, speciality, travelled,
        !            65: .ft R
        !            66: etc.,
        !            67: this option insists upon
        !            68: .I -ise
        !            69: in words like
        !            70: .I standardise,
        !            71: Fowler and the OED to the contrary notwithstanding.
        !            72: .PP
        !            73: Under the 
        !            74: .B \-x
        !            75: option, every plausible stem is printed with `=' for each word.
        !            76: .PP
        !            77: The spelling list is based on many sources.
        !            78: While it is more haphazard than an ordinary
        !            79: dictionary, it is also more effective with
        !            80: proper names and popular technical words.
        !            81: Coverage of
        !            82: the specialized vocabularies of biology,
        !            83: medicine and chemistry is light.
        !            84: .PP
        !            85: The auxiliary files used for the spelling list,
        !            86: stop list, and history file may be specified by
        !            87: arguments following the
        !            88: .BR \-d ,
        !            89: .BR \-s ,
        !            90: and
        !            91: .B \-h
        !            92: options.
        !            93: The default files are indicated below.
        !            94: Copies of all output
        !            95: may be accumulated in the history file.
        !            96: The stop list filters out misspellings (e.g. thier=thy\-y+ier)
        !            97: that would otherwise pass.
        !            98: .PP
        !            99: Two routines help maintain the hash lists used by
        !           100: .I spell.
        !           101: Both expect a set of words, one per line,
        !           102: from the standard input.
        !           103: .I Spellin
        !           104: combines the words from the standard input and the
        !           105: preexisting
        !           106: .I list
        !           107: file and places a new list on the standard output.
        !           108: If no 
        !           109: .I list
        !           110: file is specified, the new list is created from scratch.
        !           111: .I Spellout
        !           112: looks up each word from the standard input and prints
        !           113: on the standard output
        !           114: those that are missing from (or present on, with
        !           115: option
        !           116: .BR \-d )
        !           117: the hashed
        !           118: .I list
        !           119: file.
        !           120: For example, to verify that
        !           121: .I hookey
        !           122: is not on the default spelling list, add it to your own
        !           123: private list, and then use it with
        !           124: .IR spell ,
        !           125: .PP
        !           126: .RS
        !           127: .nf
        !           128: echo  hookey  |  spellout  /usr/share/dict/hlista
        !           129: echo  hookey  |  spellin  /usr/share/dict/hlista  >  myhlist
        !           130: spell  \-d  myhlist  huckfinn
        !           131: .RE
        !           132: .SH FILES
        !           133: /usr/dict/hlist[ab]    hashed spelling lists, American & British, default for
        !           134: .B \-d
        !           135: .br
        !           136: /usr/dict/hstop                hashed stop list, default for
        !           137: .B \-s
        !           138: .br
        !           139: /dev/null              history file, default for
        !           140: .B \-h
        !           141: .br
        !           142: /tmp/spell.$$\(**              temporary files
        !           143: .br
        !           144: /usr/libexec/spell
        !           145: .br
        !           146: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           147: deroff(1), sort(1), tee(1), sed(1)
        !           148: .SH BUGS
        !           149: The spelling list's coverage is uneven;
        !           150: new installations will probably wish to 
        !           151: monitor the output for several months to gather
        !           152: local additions.
        !           153: .br
        !           154: British spelling was done by an American.

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