Re: spell command

In article <vv2vcg$17op$2@gal.iecc.com>, John Levine  <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

IF you run bspell, it immediately complains that it can't
find /usr/share/dict/stop,  If you touch that name to make
an empty file, now it says
>
spellprog: /usr/share/dict/stop: Invalid argument
>
No matter what badly spelled stuff I feed it, it produces no output.

# ln -s /usr/local/share/dict/stop /usr/share/dict
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/bspell /usr/local/bin/spell
$ /usr/local/bin/bspell /etc/motd
FAQ
forums.FreeBSD.org
fr
FreeBSD
https
motd
pkg
usr
www.FreeBSD.org

Not sure if its sufficient for the OP's needs.

While I can believe that the intention may be that it's the old spell
program, the reality appears otherwise.

<URL:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=bb1f23aa2db1e409fe2538f2895dd1d2de6ef790>
| Install bsd-spell as bspell instead of spell since it otherwise
| conflicts with textproc/aspell-ispell.

John
groenveld@acm.org