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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:27:44 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
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To: Gareth Pearce <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: spell and nano (was reply to cgf about gpl violation)
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On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> (crossing to cygwin incase it might inspire someone)
>> use nano; for the same reason the (webpage) nano binary uses PDcurses
>> rather than ncurses so no termcap files are needed.  I think the cygwin
>> provided version of nano is far superior as things like spell check
>> would actually work,
> This would be a theory - however since no one has ported and packaged
> spell to cygwin - it is not yet the (general) case.
GNU aspell works OOTB on Cygwin
If anyone's interested, I'll be happy to make it a Cygwin package.

There is, of course, already a port of ispell around..
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/V1.1/

rlc



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