Message-Id:	<199711041337.IAA21301@delorie.com>
Date:	Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:08:56 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: Ispell 3.1.20 patched
MIME-Version:	1.0

This is to announce that the DJGPP port of GNU Ispell 3.1.20 with several 
bugs fixed is now available from SimTel.NET mirrors:

  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/isp3120b.zip
  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/isp3120s.zip

Ispell is an interactive spell-checker which supports many languages.  
(The binary distribution comes with English dictionary only, but the 
README file explains how to get hold of other dictionaries.)

The bugs that this release corrects are only significant to some people.  
Here's the list of corrected bugs:

	1) Ispell would behave incorrectly when invoked on read-only 
files.

	2) It was not possible to use the pre-compiled ispell.exe with 
non-English languages which use all of the 8 bits in the character codes.

	3) Ispell would leave an empty spelled output on some systems.  
(Many thanks to John R. Velman <velman AT alumni DOT caltech DOT edu>, for helping 
me debug this problem.)

If you are not bothered by any of the above problems, you can continue 
using the previous port.  If you do upgrade, please be sure to install 
the dictionary that comes with this binary distribution as well, since 
the dictionary in the previous port is incompatible (due to the 8-bit 
issue).

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