Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 16:22:33 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Merser?= <merser AT inet DOT uni2 DOT dk>
cc: DJGPP <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: EMACS ispell
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On Thu, 14 May 1998, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Merser?= wrote:

> Hopefully a minor problem.

Sorry, it's not :-(.

> When I try to invoke ispel  (C-x $) I get the following error:
> No such file or directory (ENOENT) ispell.

I have good news, and I have bad news ;-).

The good news are that Emacs is looking for an executable program Ispell, 
not for ispell.el (which you have).  A DJGPP port of Ispell is available 
as v2gnu/isp3120b.zip, from the same place you got the DJGPP port of 
Emacs.  You need to download and install it.

However, the bad news are that the Ispell support in Emacs won't work in 
the DJGPP port, because it relies on asynchronous subprocesses which the 
DJGPP version of Emacs doesn't support.

So, once you install Ispell, you will need to run it as an external 
program (it has its own screen driver).