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ispell for Windows (ASPELL dict' problem)


From: 3246251196ryan
Subject: ispell for Windows (ASPELL dict' problem)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 02:50:54 -0800 (PST)
User-agent: G2/1.0

In order to get ispell to work with Windows/Emacs I am following this Aspell 
guide:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AspellWindows

However, it all of a sudden talk about a:
(setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/path/to/your/.ispell")

What is this about?

I have downloaded the two binaries firstly installing the Aspell binary. Then, 
I have installed aspell-en-0.50-2-3.exe - the EN dict. This produces the 
following files:

-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      85 Dec 21  2002 
american-w-accents.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      75 Dec 21  2002 american.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      85 Dec 21  2002 british-w-accents.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      75 Dec 21  2002 british.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      85 Dec 21  2002 
canadian-w-accents.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      75 Dec 21  2002 canadian.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 4045824 Dec 21  2002 en-only.rws
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators     132 Dec 21  2002 en.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators  154624 Dec 21  2002 en_CA-only.rws
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      94 Dec 21  2002 en_CA-w-accents.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators     113 Dec 21  2002 en_CA.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators  154624 Dec 21  2002 en_GB-only.rws
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      94 Dec 21  2002 en_GB-w-accents.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators     113 Dec 21  2002 en_GB.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators  142336 Dec 21  2002 en_US-only.rws
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      94 Dec 21  2002 en_US-w-accents.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators     113 Dec 21  2002 en_US.multi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators      72 Dec 21  2002 english.alias

I have tried:
(setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/Program Files 
(x86)/Aspell/dict/en_GB.multi")

etc but I get the error message:

ispell-init-process: Error: The file "C:/Program Files 
(x86)/Aspell/dict/en_GB.multi" is not in the proper format.

I also cannot find a file called .ispell: In my EMACS dir location:
find . -iname "*spell*"
./etc/images/low-color/spell.xpm
./etc/images/spell.pbm
./etc/images/spell.xpm
./lisp/erc/erc-spelling.el
./lisp/erc/erc-spelling.elc
./lisp/obsolete/spell.el
./lisp/obsolete/spell.elc
./lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el
./lisp/textmodes/flyspell.elc
./lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
./lisp/textmodes/ispell.elc

How to solve this problem?

Thank you.


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