spell and /usr/dict/words.

Vadim G. Antonov avg at hq.demos.su
Wed Aug 29 19:27:19 AEST 1990


In article <517 at sun13.scri.fsu.edu> mayne at VSSERV.SCRI.FSU.EDU (William (Bill) Mayne) writes:
>... For relatively long strings there are many hash collisions which
>cause nonwords to be accepted.

	You could defeat such effects by splitting dictionary
	into several different pieces (with different hash-tables)
	and patch spell's shell script to call spellers like that:

		spell {hash1} | spell {hash2} | spell {hash3}

	The words not filtered out by all spellers will appear at the end.



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