Subject: Re: spell(1): starting from scratch?
To: Igor Sobrado <igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 05/16/2005 09:29:17
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Igor Sobrado wrote:

> I am writing a spell(1) command from scratch (I have some knowledge
> about how spell(1) works on old BSDs).  Should I look for the Berkeley
> version instead?  (I think that this version is under a license from
> Caldera International Inc.)

You may want to look at OpenBSD's spell(1):

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/spell/

"spell command from 4.4BSD, now freed by Caldera." with "significant
changes".

 Jeremy C. Reed

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