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from: JORJ STRUMOLO
date: 1995-08-25 21:09:00
subject: TSE: DSpell, odd key

 First up, has anyone tried the DSpell spelling checker macro by
 Dave Monksfield?  It's an alternative interface, looking like:
------------------------ backgrnd.txt -------------------1--.---- words --2--
 Lofting: On developed worlds, beanstalks, launch loops,    |spacewhales
 laser launching and spacewhales are common.  On new worlds |Troq
 like Troq Anv, drop bodies and lofting are the norm.  Drop |Anv
 bodies are simple vessels that are dropped from orbit,     |ablating
 their heat shields ablating, parachutes floating them to   |photovoltaics
 It presents all the possibly misspelled words at once; if you glance at
 it and see that none are really misspelled, you can simply hit Escape
 right away, without having to wade thru the possible misspellings
 individually.  DSpell also allows editing outside of the words it
 cites, in case you spot some other mistake when checking.  Very nice.
 Problem is that it only loads SEMWARE.LEX, *not* PERSONAL.LEX nor
 USER.LEX, so it neither recognizes individual words one might use,
 nor lets you add more to your personal dictionaries.  Is anyone up
 to getting DSpell to load those dictionaries, as SpellChk does?
 The DSpell and SpellChk macros are both hyper-complex, over 14k
 compiled, and porting features from one to the other is beyond me.
 Finally, another odd key ShowKey doesn't recognize,
 , which shows up as:
 Char   ASCII   Scan     Hex     Dec   Key
        Code    Code                   Name
   *     252       1     1FC     508   
 -- SPEED 2.00 #1019: To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. * Confucius
--- QScan/PCB v1.17b / 01-0175
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* Origin: Eagle's Nest Comm., Inc Prov, RI 401-621-4600 (1:323/150)

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