Curious and curiouser ......

 A few years back I stumbled across 'Ispell', the
 free spell checking programme and after a lot of
 reading (I'd never compiled a file before - or since :-)),
 I installed it with a view to doing spell checking
 ..... the reason I plonked on Ispell was that it
 is fast (non-GUI) and large (2.4megs dictionary).

 It worked fine and I adjusted the 'Termcap.Dat' to
 suit this worked fine.

 Anyways ..... something has broken it ?

 I've done re-installs, using defaults etcetera but
 to no avail ... it keeps flashing up an error message
 when invoked to the effect that 'a non-recognised
 command in 'Termcap.Dat'.

 So ...... ever curious, I did an install of OS/2 on
 a Uni students new PC and installed 'Ispell' from
 my system without any changes to the setup parms,
 (Ispell.Cfg/Termcap.Dat/Environment setup in the OS/2
  Config.Sys) ... It worked correctly.

 Yet on my OS/2 machine ..... it won't ?

 I did a search for 'Termcap' across all drives
 (using Jonathan DeBoyne Pollard's 'OS2clu' tools),
 seeking to find a bad/corrupted/incorrect version of
 'Termcap.Dat' in the OS/2 Paths, though as per Ispell
 docs, I have it set in the environment.

 I've done a compare using 'PM-Difference' of the
 two OS/2 'Config.Sys' between my OS/2 setup and
 the recently installed OS/2 on the Uni students'
 PC ..... and can't spot anything that might be
 causing this problem with 'Ispell' on my OS/2 PC.

 I'm wondering if it's got anything to do with the 
 'Country' (ie US/Aus/UK)  setups for keyboard/Country ?

 Has anyone encountered this before or any suggestions ?

 Thanks ...... it's really bugging me.

 Tony
 Sydney, Oz
 Sun 11-14-1999  10:30:17 am


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