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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:00:58 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Ralph Gesler <rgesler AT pacificnet DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Ispell under emacs
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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Ralph Gesler wrote:

> I believe that I do have the latestest version of Emacs (em2005.zip)
> D/L'ed from Simtelnet. I completely removed my entire DJGPP directory,
> an older, and D/L'ed and installed the latest version of DJGPP. Prior to
> this time I did not have Emacs or Ispell installed.

Let's make sure you indeed have the latest versions.

First, launch Emacs, then type "M-x emacs-version RET", and tell what
did it print in the echo area.

Next, go to your lisp sibdirectory, type "dir/-w ispell.*", and tell
what did that print.

> I tried a search for this string in ispell.el and found nothing. This is
> likely where my problem lies.

Yes.  I suspect that your ispell.el is an older version.

> The order of events in installing the
> latest version of DJGPP is as follows:
>   1. Using the zip picker as a guide D/L'ed *.zip files from Simtelnet 
>      encluding Emacs and unzipped using pkunzip with the -d option.
> 
>   2. At a later date D/L'ed and installed ispell (isp3120b.zip).
> 
> Is it possible that this sequence overwrote a version of ispell.el
> installed with Emacs?

Probably.  isp3120b.zip includes an older version of ispell.el, so you
might have overwritten the new files.  Please unzip the new ispell.elc
from em2005b.zip into gnu/emacs/lisp directory and see if that helps.
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).

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