spell and /usr/dict/words.

[Vic Rice]

gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>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.

>Yes, and if there are too many arcane-but-correct spellings in the word
>list that "spell" uses, many misspellings will not be detected because
>the misspelling matches some arcane, unintended word.  When it comes to
>"spell", bigger is definitely not better.

I just tried this on my system : SCO Opendesktop (SYSV R3.2.1). No 
misspellings were flagged.
-- 
Dr. Victor L. Rice
Litwin Process Automation