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1.1     ! root        1: .\"    @(#)spell.1     6.1 (Berkeley) 4/29/85
        !             2: .\"
        !             3: .TH SPELL 1 "April 29, 1985"
        !             4: .AT 3
        !             5: .SH NAME
        !             6: spell, spellin, spellout \- find spelling errors
        !             7: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             8: .B spell
        !             9: [
        !            10: .B \-v
        !            11: ] [
        !            12: .B \-b
        !            13: ] [
        !            14: .B \-x
        !            15: ] [
        !            16: .B \-d
        !            17: hlist ] [
        !            18: .B \-s
        !            19: hstop ] [
        !            20: .B \-h
        !            21: spellhist
        !            22: ] [ file ] ...
        !            23: .PP
        !            24: .B spellin
        !            25: [ list ]
        !            26: .PP
        !            27: .B spellout
        !            28: [
        !            29: .B \-d
        !            30: ] list
        !            31: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            32: .I Spell
        !            33: collects words from the named documents,
        !            34: and looks them up in a spelling list.
        !            35: Words that neither occur among nor are derivable
        !            36: (by applying certain inflections,
        !            37: prefixes or suffixes) from words in the spelling list
        !            38: are printed on the standard output.
        !            39: If no files are named,
        !            40: words are collected from the standard input.
        !            41: .PP
        !            42: .I Spell
        !            43: ignores most
        !            44: .I troff,
        !            45: .I tbl
        !            46: and
        !            47: .IR  eqn (1)
        !            48: constructions.
        !            49: .PP
        !            50: Under the
        !            51: .B \-v
        !            52: option, all words not literally in the spelling list are printed,
        !            53: and plausible derivations from spelling list words are indicated.
        !            54: .PP
        !            55: Under the 
        !            56: .B \-b
        !            57: option, British spelling is checked.
        !            58: Besides preferring
        !            59: .ft I
        !            60: centre, colour, speciality, travelled,
        !            61: .ft R
        !            62: etc.,
        !            63: this option insists upon
        !            64: .I -ise
        !            65: in words like
        !            66: .I standardise,
        !            67: Fowler and the OED to the contrary notwithstanding.
        !            68: .PP
        !            69: Under the 
        !            70: .B \-x
        !            71: option, every plausible stem is printed with `=' for each word.
        !            72: .PP
        !            73: The spelling list is based on many sources.
        !            74: While it is more haphazard than an ordinary
        !            75: dictionary, it is also more effective with
        !            76: proper names and popular technical words.
        !            77: Coverage of
        !            78: the specialized vocabularies of biology,
        !            79: medicine and chemistry is light.
        !            80: .PP
        !            81: The auxiliary files used for the spelling list,
        !            82: stop list, and history file may be specified by
        !            83: arguments following the
        !            84: .BR \-d ,
        !            85: .BR \-s ,
        !            86: and
        !            87: .B \-h
        !            88: options.
        !            89: The default files are indicated below.
        !            90: Copies of all output
        !            91: may be accumulated in the history file.
        !            92: The stop list filters out misspellings (e.g. thier=thy\-y+ier)
        !            93: that would otherwise pass.
        !            94: .PP
        !            95: Two routines help maintain the hash lists used by
        !            96: .I spell.
        !            97: Both expect a set of words, one per line,
        !            98: from the standard input.
        !            99: .I Spellin
        !           100: combines the words from the standard input and the
        !           101: preexisting
        !           102: .I list
        !           103: file and places a new list on the standard output.
        !           104: If no 
        !           105: .I list
        !           106: file is specified, the new list is created from scratch.
        !           107: .I Spellout
        !           108: looks up each word from the standard input and prints
        !           109: on the standard output
        !           110: those that are missing from (or present on, with
        !           111: option
        !           112: .BR \-d )
        !           113: the hashed
        !           114: .I list
        !           115: file.
        !           116: For example, to verify that
        !           117: .I hookey
        !           118: is not on the default spelling list, add it to your own
        !           119: private list, and then use it with
        !           120: .IR spell ,
        !           121: .PP
        !           122: .RS
        !           123: .nf
        !           124: echo  hookey  |  spellout  /usr/dict/hlista
        !           125: echo  hookey  |  spellin  /usr/dict/hlista  >  myhlist
        !           126: spell  \-d  myhlist  huckfinn
        !           127: .RE
        !           128: .SH FILES
        !           129: /usr/dict/hlist[ab]    hashed spelling lists, American & British, default for
        !           130: .B \-d
        !           131: .br
        !           132: /usr/dict/hstop                hashed stop list, default for
        !           133: .B \-s
        !           134: .br
        !           135: /dev/null              history file, default for
        !           136: .B \-h
        !           137: .br
        !           138: /tmp/spell.$$\(**              temporary files
        !           139: .br
        !           140: /usr/lib/spell
        !           141: .br
        !           142: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           143: deroff(1), sort(1), tee(1), sed(1)
        !           144: .SH BUGS
        !           145: The spelling list's coverage is uneven;
        !           146: new installations will probably wish to 
        !           147: monitor the output for several months to gather
        !           148: local additions.
        !           149: .br
        !           150: British spelling was done by an American.

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