SPELL(L)                                                 SPELL(L)



NAME
       spell - GNU spell, a Unix spell emulator

SYNOPSIS
       spell [options] files ...

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the spell command.
       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux dis-
       tribution  (but may be used by others), because the origi-
       nal program does not have a manual page.  Instead, it  has
       documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

       spell  is  a  program  that  emulates the traditional Unix
       spell command by calling the Ispell utility.

OPTIONS
       The programs follow the usual  GNU  command  line  syntax,
       with  long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A sum-
       mary of  options  are  included  below.   For  a  complete
       description, see the Info files.

       -I, --ispell-version
              Print Ispell's version.

       -V, --version
              Print the version number.

       -b, --british
              Use the British dictionary.

       -d, --dictionary=FILE
              Use FILE to look up words.

       -h, --help
              Print a summary of the options.

       -i, --ispell=PROGRAM
              Calls PROGRAM as Ispell.

       -l, --all-chains
              Ignored; for compatibility.

       -n, --number
              Print line numbers before lines.

       -o, --print-file-name
              Print file names before lines.

       -s, --stop-list=FILE
              Ignored; for compatibility.

       -v, --verbose
              Print words not literally found.

       -x, --print-stems
              Ignored; for compatibility.


SEE ALSO
       The programs are documented fully by GNU Spell, a clone of
       Unix `spell', available via the Info system.

AUTHOR
       This  manual   page   was   written   by   Dominik   Kubla
       <dominik@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.



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