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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>, <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: spell & ispell
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:18:31 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
>
> I don't disagree. Although I am not a user of aspell, it looks like
"it"
> (see * below) will eventually replace ispell. However I have no
experience
> with it and looking at its home page http://aspell.sourceforge.net it
doesn't
> seem to be stable. I'd rather not take responsibility for it at this
point.
>
> (*) there is a proposed merge with pspell
http://pspell.sourceforge.net/merge.html
>
> So let me rephrase the question: is there value having ispell under
setup (soon),
> even if it is replaced some day by a/pspell, knowing that it is
already available
> on ftp.franken.de ?

I think it's worth adding, no objection here.

Rob