SPELL

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NAME

spell - GNU spell, a Unix spell emulator

SYNOPSIS

spell [options] files ...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the spell command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

spell is a program that emulates the traditional Unix spell command by calling the Ispell utility.

OPTIONS

The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options are included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

-I, --ispell-version: Print Ispell's version.
-V, --version: Print the version number.
-b, --british: Use the British dictionary.
-d, --dictionary=FILE: Use FILE to look up words.
-h, --help: Print a summary of the options.
-i, --ispell=PROGRAM: Calls PROGRAM as Ispell.
-l, --all-chains: Ignored; for compatibility.
-n, --number: Print line numbers before lines.
-o, --print-file-name: Print file names before lines.
-s, --stop-list=FILE: Ignored; for compatibility.
-v, --verbose: Print words not literally found.
-x, --print-stems: Ignored; for compatibility.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Dominik Kubla <dominik@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 05:15:33 GMT, April 26, 2024