ANNOUNCE: Patch so that Aspell with Compile with VC++

[Kevin Atkinson]

I have just uploaded a patch which should allow Aspell to compile with
VC++.  The changes were submitted to by Francois Boudreau
<address@hidden>:

  It's a bit of a mess, we were not very consistent in our editing. We
  went for the quickess fix, so a few things were just disabled, like
  file locking and locales. And we had to remove a few const.

I, the author of Aspell, do not even know if it will work or the other
steps needed to get Aspell to compile under Win32.  If you have
problems with this patch please contact Francois Boudreau
<address@hidden> and not me since I do not have a copy of VC++
and in general dislike Microsoft Windows.

The file is called aspell-0.50-vc++.diff.gz and you can get it the same 
places Aspell is available.  Mainly ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell.

I plan on incorporating some of his changes in the mainline version of 
Aspell, but now all as some of the changes are rather ugly.

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