Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 12:27:02 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: John Velman <velman AT alumni DOT caltech DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ispell
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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, John Velman wrote:

> Dos 6.22, win for workgroups 3.11.
> 
> Running ispell in a bash session in a dos box under win (as I
> recall, it does the same thing runing with plain dos).

Please try this in plain DOS, and without Bash.

> ______Here is the contents of test~ afterwards__________:
> This is a test
> of Ispell.
> 
> 
> Hree are some mis speled woreds.
> ________________________________

This file works for me.  After Ispell exits, I have both `test~' and
non-empty, corrected `test'.

> The following is part of my current environment, and I hope it 
> includes everything relevant:

If running Ispell from COMMAND.COM instead of Bash doesn't help,
please try to play with the values of these variables:

> TEMP=/TEMP/
> TMP=C:\TEMP
> TMPDIR=C:\TEMP

Also, what does the [ispell] section of your djgpp.env say?