SPELL(1)			 HP-UX 5.0		      SPELL(1)

     NAME
	  spell, hashmake, spellin, hashcheck - find spelling errors

     SYNOPSIS
	  spell [ -v ] [ -b ] [ -x ] [ -l ] [ -i ] [ +local_file  ]  [
	  files ]

	  /usr/lib/spell/hashmake

	  /usr/lib/spell/spellin n

	  /usr/lib/spell/hashcheck spelling_list

     HP-UX MODEL POSITION
	  Core Utilities Extended
	  SVID

     DESCRIPTION
	  Spell collects words from the named files and looks them  up
	  in  a spelling list.	Words that neither occur among nor are
	  derivable (by applying certain inflections, prefixes, and/or
	  suffixes) from words in the spelling list are printed on the
	  standard output.  If no files are named, words are collected
	  from the standard input.

	  Spell	  ignores   most   troff(1),   tbl(1),	 and	eqn(1)
	  constructions.

	  Under the -v option, all words not literally in the spelling
	  list	are  printed, and plausible derivations from the words
	  in the spelling list are indicated.

	  Under the -b option, British spelling is  checked.   Besides
	  preferring centre, colour, programme, speciality, travelled,
	  etc.,	 this  option  insists	upon  -ise   in	  words	  like
	  standardise,	 Fowler	  and	the   OED   to	 the  contrary
	  notwithstanding.

	  Under the -x option, every plausible stem is printed with  =
	  for each word.

	  By  default,	spell  (like  deroff(1))  follows  chains   of
	  included  files  (.so and .nx troff(1) requests), unless the
	  names of such included files begin with /usr/lib.  Under the
	  -l  option,  spell  will  follow  the chains of all included
	  files.  Under the -i option, spell will ignore all chains of
	  included files.

	  Under the +local_file option, words found in local_file  are
	  removed  from	 spell's  output.  Local_file is the name of a
	  user-provided file that contains a sorted list of words, one
	  per  line.   With this option, the user can specify a set of
	  words that are correct spellings (in addition to spell's own
	  spelling list) for each job.

	  The spelling list is based on many sources, and  while  more
	  haphazard   than   an	 ordinary  dictionary,	is  also  more
	  effective with respect to proper names and popular technical
	  words.  Coverage of the specialized vocabularies of biology,
	  medicine, and chemistry is light.

	  Pertinent  auxiliary	files  may  be	 specified   by	  name
	  arguments,  indicated below with their default settings (see
	  FILES).  Copies of all output are accumulated in the history
	  file.	   The	stop  list  filters  out  misspellings	(e.g.,
	  thier=thy-y+ier) that would otherwise pass.

	  Four routines help maintain and check the hash lists used by
	  spell:

	  compress
	      Sorts  the  spellhist  file  while  removing   duplicate
	      entries.	 Used  to  prepare  a list of words to be used
	      with the + option or to prepare a list to	 be  added  to
	      the  hashed  spelling_list  via  spellin.	  Since	 spell
	      appends  to  the	history	 file  during  every   session
	      compress	should	be  run	 periodically to conserve disc
	      space.

	  hashmake
	      Reads a list of words from the standard input and writes
	      the  corresponding  nine-digit hash code on the standard
	      output.

	  spellin n
	      Reads n hash codes from the standard input and writes  a
	      compressed   spelling   list  on	the  standard  output.
	      Information about the hash coding is printed on standard
	      error.

	  hashcheck
	      Reads  a	compressed  spelling_list  and	recreates  the
	      nine-digit hash codes for all the words in it; it writes
	      these codes on the standard output.

     EXAMPLES
	  The following example creates the hashed  spell  list	 hlist
	  and  checks the result by comparing the two temporary files;
	  they should be equal.

	  cat goodwds | /usr/lib/spell/hashmake | sort -u >tmp1
	  cat tmp1 | /usr/lib/spell/spellin `cat tmp1 | wc -l` >hlist
	  cat hlist | /usr/lib/spell/hashcheck >tmp2
	  diff tmp1 tmp2
     FILES
	  D_SPELL=/usr/lib/spell/hlist[ab]  hashed   spelling	lists,
	  American & British
	  S_SPELL=/usr/lib/spell/hstop hashed stop list
	  H_SPELL=/usr/lib/spell/spellhist history file (see  compress
	  above)
	  /usr/lib/spell/spellprog program

     VARIABLES
	  D_SPELL Your hashed spelling list.  (Default as above.)
	  H_SPELL Spelling history.  (Default as above.)
	  S_SPELL Your hashed stop list.  (Default as above.)

     SEE ALSO
	  deroff(1),  eqn(1),	sed(1),	  sort(1),   tbl(1),   tee(1),
	  troff(1), typo(1).

     BUGS
	  The spelling list's coverage is  uneven;  new	 installations
	  will	probably wish to monitor the output for several months
	  to gather local additions; typically, these are  kept	 in  a
	  separate   local   file   that   is	added  to  the	hashed
	  spelling_list via spellin.
	  The British spelling feature was done by an American.