What does "spell" do wrong?
Dave Decot
decot at hpisod2.HP.COM
Wed May 17 23:30:31 AEST 1989
>I've been wondering what the program "spell" does, since it
>seems to make very many errors. Some examples of words it thinks
>are spelled correctly are
>
>utomsrr
>mgdesou
>aneorxx
What drug were you on when you put these "misspellings" in your document? :-)
Actually, most implementations of spell(1) use a hashed dictionary of
correct words. These words apparently happened to hash to the same
place as real words.
Dave Decot
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