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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 01:09:42 -0700
From: Ralph Gesler <rgesler AT pacificnet DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Ispell under emacs
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Eli,

Thanks much for the help. I believe the problem is solved using the
steps
that you outlined. I have encluded the results of the tests you
suggested
so that anyone else with the same problem can see the results.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Ralph Gesler wrote:
> 
> > I believe that I do have the latestest version of Emacs (em2005.zip)
> <Snip>

> 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.
> 
 GNU Emacs 20.5 (i386-pc-msdosdjgpp) of Fri Feb 4 2000 on PC
 
> 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

> > 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.
> 

> > <Snip>
> > 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).

  Done and done.  This corrected the problem and ispell under Emacs now
works.
  Note: I believe that it is em2005li.zip without the b.

  Thanks again. Now I can try to understand the "trick" you have
implemented to 
  make Ispell functional under DOS. However, since I have totally
unfamiliar with
  Lisp, I am now wading through the Elisp manual - all part of the fun
and challange.

  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.

Ralph Gesler