SPELL(I) 4/15/75 SPELL(I)
NAME
spell - find spelling errors
SYNOPSIS
spell [ -v ] file ...
DESCRIPTION
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 s ) are not printed. If no files are given, the
input is from the standard input.
If the -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.
The process takes several minutes.
FILES
/usr/lib/w2006, /usr/dict/words, /usr/lib/spell[123]
SEE ALSO
typo (I)
BUGS
Because of the mapping into lower case and the stripping of
special characters, words may be hard to locate in the
original text.
The escape sequences of troff (I) are not correctly
recognized.
More suffixes, and perhaps some prefixes, should be added.
The dictionary cannot be distributed because of copyright
limitations.