    SPELL(I)                     4/15/75                     SPELL(I)

    NAME
         spell - find spelling errors

    SYNOPSIS
         spell [ -v ] file ...

    DESCRIPTION
         Spell collects the words from the named documents, and looks
         them up in a dictionary.  The words not found are printed on
         the standard output.  Words which are reasonable transforma-
         tions of dictionary entries (e.g. a dictionary entry plus  s
         ) are not printed.  If no files are given, the input is from
         the standard input.

         If the -v flag is given, all words which are  not  literally
         in  the  dictionary  are  printed; those which can be trans-
         formed to lie in the dictionary are so marked, and the  oth-
         ers are marked with asterisks.

         The process takes several minutes.

    FILES
         /usr/lib/w2006, /usr/dict/words, /usr/lib/spell[123]

    SEE ALSO
         typo(I)

    BUGS

         Because  of the mapping into lower case and the stripping of
         special characters, words may be hard to locate in the orig-
         inal text.

         The  escape  sequences of troff(I) are not correctly recog-
         nized.

         More suffixes, and perhaps some prefixes, should be added.

         The dictionary cannot be distributed  because  of  copyright
         limitations.

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