Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/04/04/13:23:38
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Ralph Gesler wrote:
> > First, launch Emacs, then type "M-x emacs-version RET", and tell what
> > did it print in the echo area.
> >
> GNU Emacs 20.5 (i386-pc-msdosdjgpp) of Fri Feb 4 2000 on PC
That's the correct version.
> > Next, go to your lisp sibdirectory, type "dir/-w ispell.*", and tell
> > what did that print.
> >
> Directory of C:\djgpp\gnu\emacs\lisp
> ISPELL ELC 44,764 06-28-96 9:53a ispell.elc
> ISPELL EL 94,425 06-28-96 8:53a ispell.el
That's the wrong (old) version, it comes from the Ispell distro.
> > If you downloaded em2005bli.zip, unzip ispell.el as well (the latter
> > is not important, since Emacs will use ispell.elc if it's present).
>
> Done and done. This corrected the problem and ispell under Emacs now
> works.
> Note: I believe that it is em2005li.zip without the b.
Yes, it's my typo. Sorry.
> May I suggest that a statement be added to the README.DOS to the
> effect that when installing Ispell the user answer no when prompted
> during the unzip process about ispell.elc or ispell.el and not allow
> these two files to be over written.
It strikes me as a better solution simply to remove ispell.el and
ispell.elc from the Ispell distribution. When I have time to update the
distribution, that's what I'll do.
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