From 0d9a1bf22eb01b1c91113f9343d91885c5dddb7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Doug McIlroy Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1975 19:35:54 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Research V6 development Work on file usr/doc/man/man1/spell.1 Synthesized-from: v6 --- usr/doc/man/man1/spell.1 | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 usr/doc/man/man1/spell.1 diff --git a/usr/doc/man/man1/spell.1 b/usr/doc/man/man1/spell.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fcb8a28916 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/doc/man/man1/spell.1 @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +.th SPELL I 4/15/75 +.sh NAME +spell \*- find spelling errors +.sh SYNOPSIS +.bd spell +[ +.bd \*-v +] +file ... +.sh DESCRIPTION +.it Spell +collects the words from the named documents, +and looks them up in a dictionary. +The words not found are printed on the standard output. +Words which are reasonable transformations of dictionary entries +(e.g. a dictionary entry plus +.it s +) +are not printed. +If no files are given, the input is from the standard input. +.s3 +If the +.bd \*-v +flag is given, all words which are not literally in the dictionary are printed; +those which can be transformed to lie in the dictionary are so marked, +and the others are marked with asterisks. +.s3 +The process takes several minutes. +.sh FILES +/usr/lib/w2006, /usr/dict/words, /usr/lib/spell[123] +.sh "SEE ALSO" +typo (I) +.sh BUGS +.s3 +Because of the mapping into lower case and the stripping of +special characters, words may be hard to locate in the original text. +.s3 +The escape sequences of troff (I) are not correctly recognized. +.s3 +More suffixes, and perhaps some prefixes, should be added. +.s3 +The dictionary cannot be distributed because of +copyright limitations. -- 2.20.1