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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.
SEE ALSO
The programs are documented fully by
GNU Spell, a clone of Unix `spell',
available via the Info system.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Dominik Kubla <dominik@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
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