Message-Id:	<200109082057.QAA08424@delorie.com>
Date:	Sat, 08 Sep 2001 11:18:00 +0300
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Sender:	halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: Ispell 3.2.06 ported
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

This is to announce that the DJGPP port of GNU Ispell 3.2.06 is now
available from SimTel.NET mirrors:

http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/isp3206b.zip&name=isp3206b.zip
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/isp3206s.zip&name=isp3206s.zip

The first of these two includes precompiled binaries, docs,
dictionaries, and other files required to run the speller, the second
includes the sources and word lists used to build the program and the
dictionaries.

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

The file README.dos in the binary distribution explains how to install 
Ispell.  Please read it before unzipping the rest of the package.

This version of Ispell is primarily a bug-fix release, but there's a
small number of user-visible features:

  - A new interactive mode: if Ispell is invoked with no arguments, it
    will prompt for words and suggest corrections.

  - A new HTML mode, suitable for spell-checking HTML files.

  - Support for external deformatters (programs which remove parts of
    text that aren't supposed to be spell-checked).  This can be used
    to spell-check comments and strings in program sources, for
    example.  Two deformatters are supplied with the distribution: one
    for C/C++ sources, the other for Unix shell scripts.

  - TeX/LaTeX spell-checking is more user-configurable.

  - The obsolete Texinfo documentation was removed from the
    distribution; use the man pages instead.  The Emacs interface
    ispell.el is also not included: use the file provided with Emacs
    (the one included in the latest DJGPP ports of Emacs works on
    MS-DOS and MS-Windows).

The previous port promised that future official releases of Ispell
will support DJGPP out of the box.  This is not the case,
unfortunately, but I resent the diffs to the maintainers, and he
promised to incorporate them (I've got a few questions from him which
indicated he indeed is working on getting the DJGPP support into the
sources).  So future official releases of Ispell will support DJGPP
out of the box ;-)

Enjoy
						Eli Zaretskii

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