[5,24] -- SPELLING CHECKER -------------------------- Submitted by: Chris Doran Date: January 1987 Sira Ltd., South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5EH, England. Tel: +44 1 467 2636, Telex: 896649, FAX: +44 1 467 6515 Debugged and extended version of the SPELL program by Dave Walesby on the Warwick 1981 RT-11 SIG tape. This version is conditionalised for assembly for either RT-11 or RSX-11-M/M-PLUS. A 7000 word English English dictionary is supplied (SPELL.WRD). 7000 words is about the most you can get in memory at once on a PDP-11 system. The %.DIC files give an 84000 word English English * dictionary, but there's no way you will be able to use it with the SPELL program here! If anyone manages to fit it into a small enough space, and/or find a fast algorithm for searching it, I'm all ears. I spent months collecting (mostly American) dictionary files from the SIG tapes, merged them, and checked/anglicised them against the OED to produce what you have here, only to find that the VAX tree-structured spelling checker someone gave me just couldn't handle that many words at a sensible rate! ABBREV.DIC is a dictionary of common abbreviations, and site-specific words. ------- * "English English" means that words like "anglicise" end "-ise", not "-ize", which is "British English". At least, those are DEC's definitions, used on the DECmate; I'm not sure how official they are.