Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 13:20:30 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Michael Lundh <mlundh AT sw DOT seisy DOT abb DOT se>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Ispell leaves empty file
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On 5 Feb 1997, Michael Lundh wrote:

> under cwsdpmi/dos on the 486. The problem that ispell exits with a
> empty output file occurs when ispell is run in a dos-box under windows
> (3.1).  Could there be some problems with my windows setup?

Ispell works for me both in Windows and DOS.  I cannot see anything in
your config files that could suggest the reason for your trouble. 
(However, the Windows setup is much more than CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
alone: there are all kinds of .ini files and the settings on DOSPRMPT.PIF
file, just for starters.)

Do I understand correctly that when you run Ispell on Windows, it works 
as usual, finds the misspelled words and lets you correct them, but when 
you exit, it leaves an empty file and a backup file with a previous 
version of that file?

If the above description isn't accurate, please tell more about what 
happens on Windows.  If it *is* accurate, I'm clueless about possible 
reasons to such a weird behavior.  The only thing I'd suggest to check is 
whether you have some other ispell.exe lurking on your PATH.