[4277] in SIPB bug reports
Pnews/Rnmail version with spell checking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Sat Nov 27 14:56:41 1993
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 93 14:54:44 -0500
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
To: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, usenet@MIT.EDU
Someone reported to me in personal mail that the version of Pnews that I
installed does not have the feature of prompting if you want to
spell-check the article. He said he didn't care.
It seems that the version of Pnews distributed with trn has an option to
run a Bourne shell script which frobs with the message and runs
``ispell'' on the body of the message. I think this is a cool thing,
and, if it works properly, we should consider installing it. I don't
think it will break rn, because rn frankly doesn't care what Pnews does
as long as it takes the -h option. (Actually, it doesn't care about
even that, because it doesn't check the exit status of Pnews, but the
posting won't work properly unless Pnews takes the -h headerfile option,
which the trn Pnews does.)
The same thing goes for Rnmail.
What do people think? Would people who post news from rn or use Pnews
directly consider it a gratuitous change of user interface? Would trn
users be upset not to have the spell-check option? Both rn and trn
currently run Pnews and Rnmail from the user's search path.
-Calvin
