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Re: undeniable bug in /usr/bin/spell |
The problem is that you have been misled by false statements made by
FSF and whomever made your RPM.
/usr/bin/spell is not part of the ispell package. As such, I can take
no responsibility for incorrectness in the script you have, nor for
the lack of documentation.
The bug you found is indeed undeniable. Your two-liner with 'sort -u"
is the correct fix, although technically it's still wrong because it
doesn't accept the "-b" switch of spell, but it at least does
approximately the right thing.
> $ which spell|xargs rpm -qif
> Group : Text tools Source RPM:
> ispell-3.1.20-13mdk.src.rpm
> Ispell is the GNU interactive spelling checker.
The statement in the last line is false. Given the history of FSF
with respect to ispell, I have trouble calling it anything other than
a lie. Ispell is not "the GNU interactive spelling checker". I
permit FSF to distribute it, despite their insistence on being
difficult and uncooperative. But it is completely false for them to
imply, as does the above statement, that the program has any
connection to GNU or to FSF.
--
Geoff Kuenning address@hidden http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/
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