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- From: marocchi@rtsg.mot.com (Jim Marocchi)
- Subject: Re: Spell Checker
- Message-ID: <marocchi.725053840@guppie58>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1992Dec16.170650.11441@keinstr.uucp> <1gptr2INNot8@coral.bucknell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:50:40 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- mead@bucknell.edu (Jerry Mead) writes:
-
- >In article 11441@keinstr.uucp, chaplin@keinstr.uucp (Roger Chaplin) writes:
- >>John D. Mireley (mireley@arnou.cem.msu.edu.brewery) wrote:
- >>: Is there a spelling checker integrated into the OL 3.0 DeskSet from
- >>: Sun? If there is, I missed it. Can someone enlighten me. If not, is
- >>: there one available on the net?
- >>
- >>I haven't found one in DeskSet. I use ispell (freely available) and
- >>have hooked it into the `Extras' menu in text windows :-)
- >>
- >>--
- >>Roger Chaplin / Instruments Division Engineering / "Though I'd been lost now I
- >>chaplin@keinstr.uucp / CI$: 76307,3506 / felt I was found when He
- >>#include <disclaimer.h> / looked at me with His
- >>#include "disclaimer.h" /* cover all bases */ / forgiving eyes." - Michael Card
-
-
- >Could Roger please post the code used in the text_extras_menu file to hook
- >ispell into text windows? Thanks
-
- >jerry
-
-
- Here is one (admittedly crude) method to tie into spell (I would assume ispell
- would work the same way) from the extras menu. I'm sure there are other ways,
- but this may get you started. What I really wanted to do was to pipe the
- spell output to it's own window, but I never got around to that....
-
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- #
- # Copyright (c) 1987 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- #
- # Text "Extras" menu
- #
- # Modified: 4/29/92 by JAM
- #
-
- "Format-72" fmt
- "Format 60" fmt -60
- #"Format-80" fmt -80
-
- "Insert Signature" MENU $HOME/.menu/text_signatures.menu
-
- "Spell Check Selected Text" csh -c 'echo " *** spell check start ***" > /dev/console; spell > /dev/console; echo "*** spell check complete ***" > /dev/console'
-
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