[5264] in SIPB bug reports
ispell on SGI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower)
Thu Mar 30 09:37:45 1995
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 09:37:23 -0500
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-sgi-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
ispell in the SIPB locker for the SGI was broken:
(but I fixed it; if you don't care about the details, you need read no
further.)
> w20-575-100% echo test tset | /mit/sipb/bin/ispell -l
> Illegal format hash table
Looking into this a bit closer, yet being thoroughly unable to remember the
endianness of various platforms, it turns out that
/mit/sipb/arch/sgi_52/lib/ispell.hash is a symlink to the vax ispell hash
table. However, all the other files in the SGI lib directory are symlinks to
rsaix libraries. The rsaix ispell hash table is symlinked to the RT ispell
hash table.
Prepared with this oddness, I tried this incantation (itself merely a mild
permutation of the SIPB ispell script):
> w20-575-100% echo test tset | ispell -d /mit/sipb/rtlib/ispell.hash -l
> tset
which worked.
I rm'd the vax symlink and created a new symlink pointing to the rtlib
version.
- Eric
(ispell still doesn't work in emacs on the SGI, but I think that's unrelated
to this.)
