From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ispell and emacs Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:53:19 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85lk93nkio.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194910873 24897 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2007 23:41:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:41:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 13 00:41:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iritw-0006ce-C4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:41:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iritk-0006od-3y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:40:56 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k3/nCnkRPJc6O02kUWw2TpA/s+s= Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Nov 2007 23:53:19 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c4cd460a.newsspool4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=0IC:M3T[T^c:i=48; n?Z:`4IUKb8fnOBT9dD\h1_LiI6ENVam3>5MOK`; S:bhJlUHSP085DG_iMFA4C; [71On Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153730 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49180 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com >> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:17:26 +0000 (UTC) >> >> On a 75MHz machine in DOS I have emacs 19.34 and ispell 4. >> I seem to recall being told back them ispell 3 would not work >> or was it Ispell 4 with my version of emacs. > > It's neither. I think you are talking about the obsolete ispell4.el > file, not Ispell version 4 (which does not exist). If I remember correctly, Ispell version 4 does exist, but it is missing essential capabilities from the current Ispell 3 version. So its gotten out of use. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum