[14973] in Athena Bugs
Re: Speller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Feb 25 19:08:30 1997
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:08:26 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jeremy L Warner <jwarner@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14972] in Athena Bugs"
> Is there any way that the spelling dictionary can be improved? When
> it can't even recognize words like can't and I've and rambled, it's
> pretty pathetic.
We're using a very, very old version of ispell; I would presume that
newer versions would do a better job. Unfortunately, I don't think we
will have time to upgrade ispell in time for this summer's Athena
release, although it's a possibility.
