On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:25:42 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
Hello!
My FreeBSD 14.2 doesn't include the spell command.
I can't find it in /usr with find, so it seems not to be installed.
Is that still available and in which package?
You're looking for the textproc/aspell port and its
variations for native languages.
Hello!
My FreeBSD 14.2 doesn't include the spell command.
I can't find it in /usr with find, so it seems not to be installed.
Is that still available and in which package?
[in reply to John D Groenveld <groenveld@acm.org>]ffoo
Hello!
My FreeBSD 14.2 doesn't include the spell command.
I can't find it in /usr with find, so it seems not to be installed.
Is that still available and in which package?
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Marco
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My FreeBSD 14.2 doesn't include the spell command.
I can't find it in /usr with find, so it seems not to be installed.
Is that still available and in which package?
On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:25:42 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
Hello!
My FreeBSD 14.2 doesn't include the spell command.
I can't find it in /usr with find, so it seems not to be installed.
Is that still available and in which package?
You're looking for the textproc/aspell port and its
variations for native languages.
$ pkg search spell
<URL:https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-search&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html>
I noticed that at least one application (dtpad) requests the spell
program (no a at the beginning).
On 30.04.2025 23:12 Uhr John D Groenveld wrote:
$ pkg search spell
<URL:https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-search&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html>
I can't find a package with pkg_search that provides the "spell"
command.
Did I do something wrong or doesn't it exist at all?
According to Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de>:query=spell&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+14.2-RELEASE+and+Ports
On 30.04.2025 23:12 Uhr John D Groenveld wrote:
$ pkg search spell
<URL:https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg- search&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.2- RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html>
I can't find a package with pkg_search that provides the "spell"
command.
Did I do something wrong or doesn't it exist at all?
Indeed it doesn't exist. There are aspell and hunspell and a lot of
language packs for them and a script that makes aspell work like ispell
which might be close enough to the spell command you want, or it might
not.
As far as I can tell the old "spell" command has never been part of the
base system. This man page confusingly suggests that it's in the ports
but it's not:
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?
Hello!
My FreeBSD 14.2 doesn't include the spell command.
I can't find it in /usr with find, so it seems not to be installed.
Is that still available and in which package?
Is it not in the port textproc/bsd-spell?
In article <m7i81dFh72vU14@mid.individual.net>, Bob Eager
<news0009@eager.cx> wrote:
Is it not in the port textproc/bsd-spell?
By default, the package ships spell(1) as bspell. <URL:https://www.freshports.org/textproc/bsd-spell>
Exactly, as I said. Just renamed as bspell, presumably to avoid (or cause) >confusion!
In article <m7iapjFh72vU15@mid.individual.net>,
Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:
Exactly, as I said. Just renamed as bspell, presumably to avoid (or
cause)
confusion!
The OP might benefit from just installing from upstream.
$ pkg rquery '%w' bsd-spell https://github.com/gbergling/bsdspell
<URL:https://github.com/gbergling/bsdspell/blob/main/Makefile>
| # Build targets | all: spell deroff
John groenveld@acm.org
On Fri, 02 May 2025 12:26:46 +0000, John D Groenveld wrote:
In article <m7iapjFh72vU15@mid.individual.net>,
Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:
Exactly, as I said. Just renamed as bspell, presumably to avoid (or >>>cause)
confusion!
The OP might benefit from just installing from upstream.
$ pkg rquery '%w' bsd-spell https://github.com/gbergling/bsdspell
<URL:https://github.com/gbergling/bsdspell/blob/main/Makefile>
| # Build targets | all: spell deroff
John groenveld@acm.org
Or just 'pkg install bsd-spell'
find /usr/share/dict/stop, If you touch that name to make
an empty file, now it says
spellprog: /usr/share/dict/stop: Invalid argument
No matter what badly spelled stuff I feed it, it produces no output.
While I can believe that the intention may be that it's the old spell >program, the reality appears otherwise.
According to Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>:
On Fri, 02 May 2025 12:26:46 +0000, John D Groenveld wrote:
In article <m7iapjFh72vU15@mid.individual.net>,
Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:
Exactly, as I said. Just renamed as bspell, presumably to avoid (or >>>>cause)
confusion!
The OP might benefit from just installing from upstream.
$ pkg rquery '%w' bsd-spell https://github.com/gbergling/bsdspell
<URL:https://github.com/gbergling/bsdspell/blob/main/Makefile>
| # Build targets | all: spell deroff
John groenveld@acm.org
Or just 'pkg install bsd-spell'
IF you run bspell, it immediately complains that it can't find /usr/share/dict/stop, If you touch that name to make an empty file, now
it says
spellprog: /usr/share/dict/stop: Invalid argument
No matter what badly spelled stuff I feed it, it produces no output.
While I can believe that the intention may be that it's the old spell program, the reality appears otherwise.
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