S P E L L   C H E C K E R

                                 submitted by:


                                   Tom Wolfe
                           Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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                              Pasadena, CA  90019

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                       A Simple Spelling Checker for EVE.

     An extended eve and standalone spelling checker are available.

     Three dictionaries are used to test the spelling of words.   A  common
     dictionary  (standard  english words), a project dictionary (acronyms,
     etc).  and a user defined dictionary.  The user defined dictionary can
     be  created/updated  while  in  an  EVE  edit  session.  Utilities are
     provided to build all three dictionaries from  text  files  containing
     one  word  per  line.   The source word file for the common dictionary
     must be in ascending (lexical)  sort  order.   The  project  and  user
     source word files do not.

     The EVE spelling checker also has special commands that understands  a
     little about C, DCL, FORTRAN, DCL and MACRO source code files and only
     checks appropriate things.  For example, The "SPELL  FORTRAN"  command
     checks only comments and character constants.  The special command are
     currently very primitive.

     A separate (standalone)  spelling  checker  patterned  after  the  LBL
     software tools SPELL utility is also available.

     The common dictionary currently contains 91,000+ words.

     The project dictionary can contain 1,000 word (or 10,000 bytes).

     The user dictionary can contain 200 words (or 2,000 bytes).

     The maximum word size is currently 31 bytes.

     Documentation can be found in the file SPELL.MEM.

     Developed on VMS 4.2, TPU Version V1 Update 0.

     The following items are submitted:

     1.  [SPELL] This directory contains the save  set  SPELL.BCK  and  the
         RUNOFF   files   AAAREADME.RNO,   AAAREADME.MEM,   SPELL.RNO   and
         SPELL.MEM.  The  spelling  checker  files  are  in  the  directory
         [.SPELL] with some redundant files removed. See the file
         [.SPELL]AAAREADME.1ST for details of how to recreate the removed
         files.