Re: spell command

On Thu, 01 May 2025 18:58:35 +0000, John Levine wrote:

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

On 30.04.2025 23:12 Uhr John D Groenveld wrote:
>

$ 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>

>
I can't find a package with pkg_search that provides the "spell"
command.
>
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

Is it not in the port textproc/bsd-spell?

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