[5313] in SIPB bug reports
Re: ispell out of date
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rain)
Wed Apr 19 15:21:48 1995
To: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: mbarker@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Apr 1995 11:04:08 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 15:21:11 EDT
From: rain <yandros@MIT.EDU>
I believe that Ezra is being confused by a name collision - there are
twp major packages that both use the name `ispell' (and much flaming
on the GNU lists about this). The version of ispell installed in the
SIPB locker is roughly the same as the athena version except that it
has a better dictionary. Both versions have [La]TeX support; simply
supply the `-t' option. (I believe that this is documented in the
stock answers).
A long while back, someone from SIPB looked at the new ispell and
decided that it was a mess and offered now features over the currently
installed version. I'll try to see if that's still the case.
chad
