Re: spell command

According to Marco Moock  <mm@dorfdsl.de>:

On 30.04.2025 23:12 Uhr John D Groenveld wrote:
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$ pkg search spell
 
<URL:https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-search&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html>

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I can't find a package with pkg_search that provides the "spell"
command.
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Did I do something wrong or doesn't it exist at all?

Indeed it doesn't exist.  There are aspell and hunspell and a lot of language packs for them
and a script that makes aspell work like ispell which might be close enough to the spell
command you want, or it might not.

As far as I can tell the old "spell" command has never been part
of the base system.  This man page confusingly suggests that it's
in the ports but it's not:

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=spell&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+14.2-RELEASE+and+Ports

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