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In article <m3u1k1zxhj.fsf@localhost.localdomain>, Michael Slass wrote:
> quasi <quasiabhi@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>>Friends,
>>	I have emacs 21.2.1 running on windows98SE.  I am just
>>starting to use Emacs (due to Lisp programming).  When I try to
>>spell-check I get "no such file or directory, ispell".  I have
>>downloaded ispell and put it in the "/home/site/ispell/" directory.
>>
> 
> On Windows, I'm betting the path to ispell starts with a drive letter
> followed by a colon.  In any event, ispell needs to be in your exec-path
> 
> (add-to-list 'exec-path "c:/home/site/ispell")

Uhmmm...  don't forget those are backslashes... c:\home\site\ispell

nb